Monument record MDO503 - 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). This barrow measures circa 28 metres by 26 metres and is 3.5 metres high. It has a flat top circa 5 metres in diameter featuring a small depression, perhaps evidence of an episode of antiquarian excavation? Listed by Grinsell as Broadmayne 2 and by RCHME as Broadmayne 24, the barrow is located a short distance southeast of the trunacted southeastern end of the aforementioned bank barrow, and is separated from it by the modern road. RCHME suggested that the bowl barrow may have been surrounded by a ditch, a suggestion dismissed by later Ordnance Survey field investigation. <1-3>

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. The barrow is located a short distance southeast of the truncated southeastern end of the bank barrow. <7-8>

<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.

‘(24) Ditched bowl (?) (70408528) about 30 yds. E.S.E. of E. end of bank barrow. Diam. 84 ft., ht. 12 ft. with possible ditch about 15 ft. wide.’

<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 Barton, J G, Various, Field Investigators Comments JGB, F1 JGB 12-NOV-1979 (Unpublished document).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 602 (Index). SDO12304.

Diameter 28.0m NE-SW by 26.0m transverse, ht. 3.8m. Flat top 5.0m in diameter. Unploughed but suffering from cattle erosion. Surrounding field in ley pasture. Constructed of chalk and flint. 1/2/C

<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 McOmish, D and Tuck, C, 2001, Broadmayne Bank Barrow, Dorset (Unpublished document).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 Wessex Archaeology, 2011, South Dorset Ridgeway Barrow Survey 2010 (Unpublished document).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> 22-APR-1954, NMR SY 7085/6-10 (Aerial Photograph). SDO10766.

<8> Royal Air Force, 04-NOV-1946, RAF/CPE/UK/1824 3284-6 (Aerial Photograph). SDO10765.

<9> National Record of the Historic Environment, 1337678 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Jun 28 2023 3:35PM