Monument record MDO501 - 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. The round barrow is circa 21 metres in diameter and 2.7 metres in height, with someminor damage. It lies close to the northern side of the bank barrow, at about its midpoint. Listed by Grinsell as Broadmayne 4 and by RCHME as Broadmayne 23. <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.

‘(22) Bowl (70308535) immediately outside N. ditch of bank barrow and 50 yds. E.S.E. of (21). Diam. 73 ft., ht. 9 ft.’

<3> Papworth, M, 1983, The South Dorset Ridgeway Project: condition and management survey, SDR 600 (Index). SDO12304.

Diameter 21.0m, ht. 2.7m. Unploughed. Grass and gorse covered. Situated in regularly ploughed field. 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 McOmish, D and Tuck, C, 2001, Broadmayne Bank Barrow, Dorset (Unpublished document).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 Wessex Archaeology, 2011, South Dorset Ridgeway Barrow Survey 2010 (Unpublished document).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> 22-APR-1954, NMR SY 7085/6-10 (Aerial Photograph). SDO10766.

<7> Royal Air Force, 04-NOV-1946, RAF/CPE/UK/1824 3284-6 (Aerial Photograph). SDO10765.

<8> National Record of the Historic Environment, 1337610 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Jun 28 2023 3:00PM