Monument record MDO505 - 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. The mound is circa 25 metres in diameter and 3.2 metres high, and is slightly truncated on its southern side by the road. Listed by Grinsell as Broadmayne 6 and by RCHME as Broadmayne 26. <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. <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.

‘(26) Bowl (70468533) 40 yds. N.N.W. of (25). Diam. about 84 ft., ht. about 11 ft.’

<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 Barton, J G, Various, Field Investigators Comments JGB, F1 JGB 12-NOV-1979 (Unpublished document).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 603 (Index). SDO12304.

Situated in a regularly ploughed field but the mound is unploughed and scrub covered. Diameter 25.0m, ht. 3.2m.

<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 McOmish, D and Tuck, C, 2001, Broadmayne Bank Barrow, Dorset (Unpublished document).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 Wessex Archaeology, 2011, South Dorset Ridgeway Barrow Survey 2010 (Unpublished document).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, 1337693 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Jun 28 2023 3:09PM