Monument record MDO506 - Bowl Barrow, part of the Culliford Tree Group, Broadmayne

Almost ploughed out, but large ditch circle visible. <1>

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 24 metres in diameter and 0.5 metres high, having suffered somewhat from ploughing. RCHME referred to the presence of a surrounding ditch, although in 1979, no trace of a ditch could be seen during Ordnance Survey fieldwork. <2-3>

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.

‘(27) Ditched bowl (70538532) 50 yds. E.N.E. of (25). Overall diam. about 90 ft., ht. 1 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 Barton, J G, Various, Field Investigators Comments JGB, F1 JGB 12-NOV-1979 (Unpublished document).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 605 (Index). SDO12304.

Diameter 24.0m, ht. 0.5m. Ploughed down in ley pasture. 1/5/D

<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 McOmish, D and Tuck, C, 2001, Broadmayne Bank Barrow, Dorset (Unpublished document).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 Wessex Archaeology, 2011, South Dorset Ridgeway Barrow Survey 2010 (Unpublished document).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, 1337699 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Jun 28 2023 3:46PM