Monument record MDO502 - Pond Barrow, part of the Culliford Tree Group, Broadmayne

Site of a Bronze Age pond barrow, part of a wider linear barrow cemetery. In 1970 this monument was reported as being a depression around 8 inches deep and 46 feet in diameter, encircled by an unbroken bank about 39 feet wide and over 3 feet high, and possible traces of a ditch around it. At that time, the barrow was overgrown.

A Bronze Age pond 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 pond barrow is circa 18 metres in diameter and 0.3 metres deep. It is located just north of the bank barrow, towards its southeastern end. It is listed by Grinsell as Broadmayne 5 and by RCHME as Broadmayne 23. <1-3>

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

Possible pond barrow in poor condition <8>

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

'(23) Pond barrow (69778543) 52 yds. E. of (22). Central depression, 46 ft. in diam. and about 8 ins. below ground level, is bounded by unbroken bank about 39 ft. wide and over 3 ft. high, with possible traces of external ditch about 20 ft. wide on W. and N. (see profile). Thickly overgrown but relatively well-preserved.'

<3> Barton, J G, Various, Field Investigators Comments JGB, F1 JGB 12-NOV-1979 (Unpublished document). SDO11900.

<4> Papworth, M, 1983, The South Dorset Ridgeway Project: condition and management survey, SDR 601 (Index). SDO12304.

Diameter c.18.0m. Depth 0.3m. Bank not visible, central depression almost ploughed out. In ley pasture. 7/6/E

<5> McOmish, D and Tuck, C, 2001, Broadmayne Bank Barrow, Dorset (Unpublished document). SDO16432.

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 Wessex Archaeology, 2011, South Dorset Ridgeway Barrow Survey 2010 (Unpublished document).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

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

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

<9> National Record of the Historic Environment, 1337672 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Jun 28 2023 3:05PM