Monument record MDO499 - Bowl Barrow, part of the Culliford Tree Group, Broadmayne

Group of round barrows: 'A' Ditched bowl '70198536) overlying W and smaller end of bank barrow (SY 78 NW 7). Diam. about 80ft, height 11ft, above ditch. <1> <3>

'A' - SY 70198536., Diameter 23.0m., and height 3.2m. its north-east half completely destroyed by quarrying. Ditch on south-west merges with the south flanking ditch of bank barrow (SY 78 NW 7). No visual evidence that the mound overlies bank barrow. Published 1:2500 surveys of `A', `B', `C', `E', `G' and `H' revised; `D', `F' and `J' surveyed at 1:2500 on M.S.D. <4>

A Bronze Age bowl barrow, part of the Culliford Tree barrow group, a dispersed linear group of barrows ranged along part of the Dorset Ridgeway and incorporating the Broadmayne bank barrow. This round barrow, circa 23 metres in diameter and 3.2 metres high, is listed by Grinsell as Broadmayne 1 and by RCHME as Broadmayne 20. It has been severely damaged by quarrying. It is located at the northwestern end of the bank barrow. RCHME stated that it overlies the end of the bank barrow, although the Ordnance Survey (in 1979) stated that there was "no visual evidence that the mound overlies the bank barrow". <10

Site of a Bronze Age bowl barrow, located adjacent to the western end of Broadmayne bank barrow and part of a wider linear barrow cemetery. <8-9>

<1> Grinsell, L V, 1959, Dorset Barrows, 97 (Monograph). SDO132.

<2> Ordnance Survey, Ordnance Survey Map 6in, 1963 (Map). SWX1540.

(Centred at SY 70398531) Tumuli (NR) (1)

<3> 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.

‘(20) Ditched bowl (70198536) overlying W. and smaller end of bank barrow (19) (see profile on map of Ridgeway Area (in pocket)). Diam. about 80 ft., ht. 11 ft. above ditch.’

<4> Barton, J G, Various, Field Investigators Comments JGB, F1 JGB 12-NOV-79 (Unpublished document). SDO11900.

<5> Papworth, M, 1983, The South Dorset Ridgeway Project: condition and management survey, SDR 597 (Index). SDO12304.

Diameter 23.0m, ht. 3.2m. Unploughed and mutilated by excavation on N. Constructed of dark loam over chalk with flint. Field regularly ploughed and in ley pasture. 7/3/C

<6> Wessex Archaeology, 2011, South Dorset Ridgeway Barrow Survey 2010 (Unpublished document). SDO12407.

<7> McOmish, D and Tuck, C, 2001, Broadmayne Bank Barrow, Dorset (Unpublished document). SDO16432.

<8> 22-APR-1954, NMR SY 7085/6-10 (Aerial Photograph). SDO10766.

<9> Royal Air Force, 04-NOV-1946, RAF/CPE/UK/1824 3284-6 (Aerial Photograph). SDO10765.

<10> National Record of the Historic Environment, 453956 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Dec 13 2023 4:44PM