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MONUMENT NO. 453950

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A probable Neolithic bank barrow at Broadmayne, located on top of the chalk ridge a short distance east of Culliford Tree. First noted by OGS Crawford in 1938, it is orientated east-southeast - west-northwest and measures circa 180 metres in length. Circa 16 meres wide, it features steep sides and a flattened top, its height being circa 2 metres. The surrounding ditch is continuous, but obscured in places by ploughing, and measuring up to 3.5 metres wide. A round barrow (SY 78 NW 9) overlies the western end of the bank barrow. The eastern end of the bank barrow has been truncated by the modern road, but does not appear to have extended beyond this road. There is no record of any excavation being undertaken on the bank barrow.

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(SY 70288533) Bank Barrow (NR) (1)

Bank Barrow (SY 70288533) identified by O.G.S. Crawford. It lies on the summit of the Upper Chalk ridge, about 470ft above O.D, with the ground falling from it to N, NE and S. On a bearing of 102 , it is 180.0m long, with flattened top and steep sides; the W and E ends are respectively 49ft and 57ft wide, and 5.5ft and 7ft high above the bottom of the ditch on the S. The ditch here is continuous and about 25ft wide, but on the N constant ploughing has obscured all but a slight depression except adjacent to a round barrow (SY 78 NW 9B), where a drop of 9ft below the crest of the bank barrow apparently represents the original ditch. Another round barrow (SY 78 NW 9A) seems deliberately placed over the W end of the bank barrow, and its ditch on the S, where undisturbed, continues the flanking ditch the latter. At the E end the bank barrow has been partly destroyed, but it is virtually certain that it never continued to the S of the modern road. (2,3)

The bank barrow is generally as described by RCHM (2) and well-preserved except for minor mutilations. Its length is 180.0m, width 16.0m and height above the ditch 2.0m. The ditch is 3.5m wide, and can be traced on the north side for a short distance at both the west and east ends. Re-surveyed at 1:2500 on M.S.D. (4)

A probable Neolithic bank barrow at Broadmayne, located on top of the chalk ridge a short distance east of Culliford Tree. First noted by OGS Crawford in 1938, it is orientated east-southeast - west-northwest and measures circa 180 metres in length. Circa 16 meres wide, it features steep sides and a flattened top, its height being circa 2 metres. The surrounding ditch is continuous, but obscured in places by ploughing, and measuring up to 3.5 metres wide. A round barrow (SY 78 NW 9) overlies the western end of the bank barrow. The barrow forms part of a dispersed group of barrows (see SY 78 NW 9 and associated records) broadly focused on the bank barrow, a nearby long barrow (SY 68 NE 72) and the ridgeway.The eastern end of the bank barrow has been truncated by the modern road, but does not appear to have extended beyond this road. There is no record of any excavation being undertaken on the bank barrow. Listed by Grinsell as Broadmayne I (under long barrows) and RCHME as Broadmayne 19. Woodward (1991) discusses the results of fieldwalking in the area as well as a general discussion of the barrow groups of the Dorset Ridgeway. (5-6)

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( 1) Ordnance Survey Map (Scale / Date)

OS 6" 1963

( 2a) Antiquity Publications Limited Antiquity

Crawford, OGS. Bank Barrows 12, 1938 Page(s)228-232

( 2) Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England) 1970 An inventory of historical monuments in the County of Dorset. Volume two : south-east [in three parts]

Page(s)431, 458

( 3) by L V Grinsell 1959 Dorset barrows

Page(s)77

( 4) Field Investigators Comments

F1 JGB 12-NOV-79

(5) Proceedings of the Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society

Bradley, R. The Bank Barrows and Related Monuments of Dorset in the Light of Recent Research. 105, 1983 Page(s)15-20

(6) Peter J Woodward 1991 The South Dorset Ridgeway : survey and excavations 1977-84

Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society monograph seriesNo.1 (1982) - no.8

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