Monument record MDO507 - 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 barrowa ranged along part of the Dorset Ridgeway. Listed by Grinsell as Broadmayne 7a and by RCHME as Broadmayne 28, its identification as a barrow is by no means certain. Ordnance Survey fieldwork in 1979 recorded a low mound circa 18 metres in diameter and 0.3 metres high. RCHME had suggested the presence of a possible ditch, although none was observed by the Ordnance Survey. <1-3>

<1> Grinsell, L V, 1959, Dorset Barrows, 35 (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.

‘(28) Ditched bowl (?) (70628537) 120 yds. N.E. of (27). Overall diam. about 90 ft. Ploughed almost flat.’

<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 Barton, J G, Various, Field Investigators Comments JGB, F1 JGB 12-NOV-1979 (Unpublished document).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 606 (Index). SDO12304.

Possible barrow. Diameter c.18.0m, ht. 0.3m. Reduced and spread in ley pasture. 7/5/D

<5> Wessex Archaeology, 2011, South Dorset Ridgeway Barrow Survey 2010 (Unpublished document). SDO12407.

<6> 27-AUG-1998, NMR SY 7085/19 (18150/09) (Aerial Photograph). SDO10767.

<7> National Record of the Historic Environment, 1337710 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Jun 28 2023 3:57PM