Came Wood

Nearest town:
Dorchester (5km NNW)
OS reference:
SY699855
OS sheet:
194
Latitude:
50° 40' 3.99 N
Longitude:
2° 25' 33.48 W
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Sites within Came Wood

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Images

Image of Came Wood (Barrow / Cairn Cemetery) by GLADMAN

Surveying the horizon upon the Bincombe round barrows.... hell, I love Dorset, me!

Image credit: Robert Gladstone
GLADMAN
GLADMAN Apr 20, 2012
Image of Came Wood (Barrow / Cairn Cemetery) by formicaant

A low barrow west of Broadmayne bank barrow.

Image credit: Mike Rowland 08/09/10
formicaant
formicaant Sep 8, 2010
Image of Came Wood (Barrow / Cairn Cemetery) by formicaant

This barrow is the closest one of this group to the bank barrow.

Image credit: Mike Rowland 08/09/10
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formicaant Sep 8, 2010
Image of Came Wood (Barrow / Cairn Cemetery) by formicaant

Two central barrows, between the bank barrow and Came woods.

Image credit: Mike Rowland 08/09/10
formicaant
formicaant Sep 8, 2010
Image of Came Wood (Barrow / Cairn Cemetery) by formicaant

This barrow is just to the east of Culliford Tree, across the road to Whitcombe.

Image credit: Mike Rowland 08/09/10
formicaant
formicaant Sep 8, 2010
Image of Came Wood (Barrow / Cairn Cemetery) by formicaant

This tree covered bowl barrow is almost joined to the pond barrow to the north.

Image credit: Mike Rowland 11/10/2007.
formicaant
formicaant Oct 11, 2007
Image of Came Wood (Barrow / Cairn Cemetery) by formicaant

This barrow is just inside Came woods next to a dry stone wall.

Image credit: Mike Rowland 11/10/2007.
formicaant
formicaant Oct 11, 2007
Image of Came Wood (Barrow / Cairn Cemetery) by formicaant

A close up of the barrow, the flat top hides a large excavation hole.

Image credit: Mike Rowland 11/10/2007.
formicaant
formicaant Oct 11, 2007
Image of Came Wood (Barrow / Cairn Cemetery) by formicaant

Not easy to see, this is further into the woods and heavily covered in trees and brush.

Image credit: Mike Rowland 11/10/2007.
formicaant
formicaant Oct 11, 2007
Image of Came Wood (Barrow / Cairn Cemetery) by formicaant

These two round barrows are of the same size and shape as the one at the end of the bank barrow in the next field.

Image credit: Mike Rowland 21/04/2007.
formicaant
formicaant Apr 21, 2007
Image of Came Wood (Barrow / Cairn Cemetery) by phil

This is a “pond barrow” on the edge of Came wood. Its huge! It doesn’t show well in a photo. The angle I chose for this photo was mainly to show what shouldn’t be there.

phil
phil Dec 1, 2002

Articles

Came Wood

formicaant
formicaant Jan 22, 2008

I had noticed a large round barrow in Came Wood while driving past. This is not visible during the summer months, the foliage is too dense. The barrow turned out to be a large bell type up close, this is very similar to Culliford Tree barrow which is only about 100 yards away to the east. If anything this barrow is in better condition as it lacks the large excavation cleft in its crown.
An added bonus while in the wood was a large ring or disc barrow about 50 yards east of the bell. It is about 15 yards across and has a bank about 3 feet high. It has an outer ditch about 3 feet deep and about 3 yards across. This has no visible burial mound inside the bank and could be a ring barrow or a possible pond type like the one adjacent to Culliford tree.

Miscellaneous

Came Wood
Barrow / Cairn Cemetery
Hob
Hob Feb 27, 2006

One of the many barrows at Came Wood yielded a rare (for the South of England) example of prehistoric rock art in the form of a cist cover with three concentric circles. It gets a mention in Tate’s ‘Sculptured rocks’ book, a more detailed description being given by the excavator. (Warne, C. 1866. The Celtic Tumuli of Dorset. London: John Russell Smith.)

An image of the concentric circles can be found on the University College London web site.

Alas, this particular marked stone is currently on the missing list.

Miscellaneous

Came Wood
Barrow / Cairn Cemetery
danielspaniel
danielspaniel Jun 9, 2005

Came Wood is a feast of Neolithic and Bronze Age barrows of several varieties. The round barrows and long barrow south of the woods are generally on arable land and under cultivation, but in the wood itself there are 2 bell barrows, a pond barrow and a long barrow.
They lie at the end of the cemetery of barrows that stretch along the South Dorset Ridgeway. It has been suggested that they formed the boundary of territory based around the major Neolithic ritual monuments of Maiden Castle, Maumbury Rings, Mount Pleasant and the destroyed Flagstones and Greyhound Yard sites in Dorchester.

Sites within 20km of Came Wood

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