Long Bredy

Also known as:
Long Barrow Hill and Martin's Down
Nearest town:
Bridport (11km W)
OS reference:
SY572912
OS sheet:
194
Latitude:
50° 43' 5.67 N
Longitude:
2° 36' 22.85 W
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Images

Image of Long Bredy (Bank Barrow) by thesweetcheat

Small but nicely situated round barrow at the southern end of the bank barrow, near the summit of the hill. Views across to Puncknowle and the Bride valley.

Image credit: A. Brookes (16.2.2017)
thesweetcheat
thesweetcheat Feb 19, 2017
Image of Long Bredy (Bank Barrow) by thesweetcheat

Vanishing point. Looking along the bank barrow from its southern end.

Image credit: A. Brookes (16.2.2017)
thesweetcheat
thesweetcheat Feb 19, 2017
Image of Long Bredy (Bank Barrow) by thesweetcheat

Very decent bowl barrow on the southeast side of the bank barrow. Looking towards Black Down and the Hardy monument, an objective for later in the day.

Image credit: A. Brookes (16.2.2017)
thesweetcheat
thesweetcheat Feb 19, 2017
Image of Long Bredy (Bank Barrow) by thesweetcheat

The bank barrow from its north end. The sleeping sheep partway along and the distant sheep on the skyline give some idea of the incredible scale of this monument.

Image credit: A. Brookes (16.2.2017)
thesweetcheat
thesweetcheat Feb 19, 2017
Image of Long Bredy (Bank Barrow) by thesweetcheat

Small round barrow at the north end of the bank barrow, one of a group.

Image credit: A. Brookes (16.2.2017)
thesweetcheat
thesweetcheat Feb 19, 2017
Image of Long Bredy (Bank Barrow) by GLADMAN

Just a few flowers.... an attempt to capture something of this beautiful bank barrow. Note the round barrow...

Image credit: Robert Gladstone
GLADMAN
GLADMAN May 10, 2010
Image of Long Bredy (Bank Barrow) by formicaant

The full length of the bank barrow from the east, adjacent to the Poor Lot barrow cemetery.

Image credit: Mike Rowland 26/04/2010
formicaant
formicaant Apr 26, 2010
Image of Long Bredy (Bank Barrow) by formicaant

The notch in the bank barrow looking west into the setting sun.

Image credit: Mike Rowland 27/08/2007.
formicaant
formicaant Aug 27, 2007
Image of Long Bredy (Bank Barrow) by formicaant

The north west end of the bank showing the western ditch.

Image credit: Mike Rowland 27/07/2007.
formicaant
formicaant Jul 27, 2007
Image of Long Bredy (Bank Barrow) by formicaant

The western side of the barrow looking north.

Image credit: Mike Rowland 27/07/2007.
formicaant
formicaant Jul 27, 2007
Image of Long Bredy (Bank Barrow) by formicaant

The east side of this huge barrow, the dark green vegetation shows the ditch.

Image credit: Mike Rowland 27/07/2007.
formicaant
formicaant Jul 27, 2007
Image of Long Bredy (Bank Barrow) by formicaant

A ditched bowl barrow about twenty feet east of the bank barrow.

Image credit: Mike Rowland 27/07/2007.
formicaant
formicaant Jul 27, 2007
Image of Long Bredy (Bank Barrow) by formicaant

The largest of three low round barrows in the same field as the bank barrow.

Image credit: Mike Rowland 27/07/2007.
formicaant
formicaant Jul 27, 2007
Image of Long Bredy (Bank Barrow) by formicaant

This is the next biggest of the low barrows near the bank.

Image credit: Mike Rowland 27/07/2007.
formicaant
formicaant Jul 27, 2007
Image of Long Bredy (Bank Barrow) by formicaant

The smallest barrow of three adjacent to the bank.

Image credit: Mike Rowland 27/07/2007.
formicaant
formicaant Jul 27, 2007

Articles

Long Bredy

texlahoma
texlahoma Jan 26, 2012

Long Bredy is one of the most accessible sites in this area, it even has it’s own bus stop! From the bust stop it’s through the gate and up the concrete trackway to the top, and you’re there. This site is a pleasure to visit since the site on a public right of way, the bank barrow itself magnificent and the views also. It’s just high enough up and away from the road for it to be possible to just lose yourself here for a while. Today I only had the company of a few cows, the custodians of the site perhaps.

The Winterbourne Poor Lot round barrows are in full view from the bank barrow and this is one of the better perspectives to see Poor Lot from.

Long Bredy

formicaant
formicaant Jul 27, 2007

This is huge and as Juamei says it cannot be photographed along it’s full length as it runs down the hill. At it’s highest points it is about twelve feet high, the gap about a third away from the north end is about six feet in height.
Although the drawing on the O.S. map shows it to be similar in length to the Bincombe bank barrow it is at least a third longer.
Both sides of the barrow, which is orientated roughly north/south has pronounced ditches either side of it. These ditches are up to two feet deep and run along it’s entire length.
Also within the same field and adjacent to it are three low round barrows and one medium sized bowl barrow which is very close to the bank at it’s south eastern end.
To the north of the site, across the very busy A35 are two large bowl barrows, both of which show signs of past excavation.

Long Bredy

juamei
juamei Jan 1, 2003

[visited 27/12/02] My first visible bank barrow and what a brute. Its like someone had finished the mound at West Kennet and then added another half length again. The barrow sprawls over the crest of the hill it dominates. The ditches on either side are clearly visible as is the strange gap about a third of the way along its length, about 5 metres across.

The views to the south are special, Abbotsbury Castle and the hill on which Kingston Russell circle resides are prominent. A short walk to the north side of the bank barrow hill and The Helstone is visible in the valley beyond the A35.

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juamei
juamei
Dec 2002

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