Monument record MDO508 - Bowl Barrow, part of the Culliford Tree Group, Broadmayne

A Bronze Age round barrow, an outlier of the Culliford Tree barrow group. Described by Grinsell and RCHME as a bowl barrow, the Ordnance Survey considered it a probable bell barrow. Ploughing has reduced it to an oval shape measuring 29 metres by 21 metres, and is up to 3 metres high. Ordnance Survey field investigation in 1954 recorded a flat berm 6 metres wide and an outer ditch 5 metres wide and up to 0.7 metres deep. By 1979, only fragments of ditch and berm were visible. The mound has also suffered from quarry damage, and also features a large central hollow and a trench on the eastern side, suggesting an episode of excavation.

A grass covered bell barrow. The mound is 29.0m. diameter and 3.0m. high, with a flat berm 6.0m. wide and an outer ditch 5.0m. wide and 0.7m. average depth. The berm and ditch are overgrown. The mound is considerably mutilated with a large central hollow and a trench on the eastern side. There is a further excavation on the west side and some quarrying has taken place in the south east quadrant. <1>

SY 70708542. Bowl barrow; diameter about 82 ft., height 10ft. <4>

SY 70698542. A probable bell barrow. The mound has been reduced by ploughing on its north-west side; it is now oval in plan 27.0m. north-east/south-west by 21.0m. transversely, and is severely mutilated by quarry pits. A fragment of ditch about 20.0m. in length with associated berm survives under dense vegetation on the south-west side, dimensions as noted by Authority 1. <5>

Re-surveyed at 1:2500 on M.S.D. SY 7067985429. A polished black pebble, 'palm-sized', was found during investigation on the present land surface of the former north quadrant of the barrow; See 25" AM. (Geological origin Devon); probably utilised as a 'fabricator'.) (a). Deposited in Dorchester Museum. <6>

A Bronze Age round barrow, an outlier of the Culliford Tree barrow group (see SY 78 NW 9 and associated monuments). Described by Grinsell and RCHME as a bowl barrow, the Ordnance Survey considered it a probable bell barrow. Ploughing has reduced it to an oval shape measuring 29 metres by 21 metres, and is up to 3 metres high. Ordnance Survey field investigation in 1954 recorded a flat berm 6 metres wide and an outer ditch 5 metres wide and up to 0.7 metres deep. By 1979, only fragments of ditch and berm were visible. The mound has also suffered from quarry damage, and also features a large central hollow and a trench on the eastern side, suggesting an episode of excavation. Listed by Grinsell as Broadmayne 8 and by RCHME as Broadmayne 29. <1> <2> <4-6>

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. <9>

<1> Swatridge, G C, Various, Field Investigators Comments GCS, F1 GCS 15-DEC-54 (Unpublished document). SWX1169.

<2> Grinsell, L V, 1959, Dorset Barrows, 97 (Monograph). SDO132.

<3> Ordnance Survey, Ordnance Survey Map 6in, 1963 (Map). SWX1540.

(SY 70708541) Tumulus (NR)

<4> 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.

‘(29) Bowl (70708542) 90 yds. N.E. of (28). Diam. about 82 ft., ht. 10 ft.’

<5> Barton, J G, Various, Field Investigators Comments JGB, F2 JGB 12-NOV-79 (Unpublished document). SDO11900.

<6> Stone, J W, Field Investigators Comments JWS, F3 JWS 18-NOV-79 (Unpublished document). SDO11902.

<7> Papworth, M, 1983, The South Dorset Ridgeway Project: condition and management survey, SDR 607 (Index). SDO12304.

Probable bell barrow. The mound has been reduced by ploughing on its NW side. It is now oval in plan 27.0m NE-SW and 21m transversely and it is severely mutilated by quarry pits. A frag. of ditch 20.0m in length with assoc. berm survives on the SW side. Scrub covered in a field of ley pasture. 1/3/C

<8> Wessex Archaeology, 2011, South Dorset Ridgeway Barrow Survey 2010 (Unpublished document). SDO12407.

<9> Royal Air Force, 04-NOV-1946, RAF/CPE/UK/1824 3284-6 (Aerial Photograph). SDO10765.

<10> Historic England, Historic England Archive, OS79/F39/9A (Index). SDO14738.

CONSIDERABLY MUTILATED BARROW WITH LARGE CENTRAL HOLLOW AND TRENCHES CUT INTO EAST AND WEST SIDES

<11> National Record of the Historic Environment, 453959 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

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Jan 22 2025 4:41PM