Monument record MDO500 - Bowl Barrow, part of the Culliford Tree Group, Broadmayne

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 (SY 78 NW 7). The round barrow, circa 26 metres by 21.5 metres across and up to 3.5 metres high, lies immediately to the north of the bank barrow, towards its western end, the southern edge of the barrow just on the lip of the bank barrow's surrounding ditch. <1-2>

A Bronze Age bowl barrow, part of a dispersed linear group of barrows ranged along part of the Dorset Ridgeway and incorporating the Broadmayne bank barrow. <6-7>

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

‘(21) Bowl (70268537) on apparent lip of N. ditch of bank barrow. Diam. about 70 ft., ht. about 6 ft.’

<3> Papworth, M, 1983, The South Dorset Ridgeway Project: condition and management survey, SDR 599 (Index). SDO12304.

Diameter 26.0m NE-SW, 21.5m transverse, ht. 3.5m. Unploughed constructed of chalk and flint. Within regularly ploughed field of ley pasture. 1/2/C

<4> McOmish, D and Tuck, C, 2001, Broadmayne Bank Barrow, Dorset (Unpublished document). SDO16432.

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 Wessex Archaeology, 2011, South Dorset Ridgeway Barrow Survey 2010 (Unpublished document).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

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

<7> 22-APR-1954, NMR SY 7085/6-10 (Aerial Photograph). SDO10766.

<8> National Record of the Historic Environment, 1337602 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Jun 28 2023 2:58PM