Monument record MDO3026 - Bowl Barrow, one of the Culliford Tree Group, Winterborne Came

A Bronze Age bowl barrow, part of the Culliford Tree group, a linear group of barrows ranged along part of the Dorset Ridgeway. Listed by RCHME as Winterborne Came 24 and by Grinsell as Winterborne Came 25, it was recorded in 1979 during Ordnance Survey field investigation as a mound 21 metres in diameter and 1.1 metres high, with no visible trace of a surrounding ditch. <1-3>

<1> Grinsell, L V, 1959, Dorset Barrows, 149 (Monograph). SDO132.

<2> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England), 1970, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume II (South East) Part 3, 459 (Monograph). SDO150.

<3> Barton, J G, Various, Field Investigators Comments JGB, F1 JGB 14-DEC-1979 (Unpublished document). SDO11900.

<4> Papworth, M, 1983, The South Dorset Ridgeway Project: condition and management survey, SDR 581 (Index). SDO12304.

Diameter 21.0m, ht. 1.1m. No visible ditch. Situated in deciduous woodland, covered in sweet chestnuts. 1/2/C

<5> Wessex Archaeology, 2011, South Dorset Ridgeway Barrow Survey 2010 (Unpublished document). SDO12407.

<6> National Record of the Historic Environment, 1339078 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Jun 16 2023 3:02PM