Monument record MDO5872 - Round barrow, Pamphill

The site of a Bronze Age round barrow is visible as cropmarks on aerial photographs and was digitally recorded during the Dorset Middle Stour AI&M Project

The site of a Bronze Age round barrow is visible as cropmarks on aerial photographs <2-3> and was digitally recorded during the Dorset Middle Stour AI&M Project. The barrow mound is 16m across and encircled by a ring ditch.

<1> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England), 1975, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume V (East), 52 (Monograph). SDO129.

'Eighteen certain or probable round barrows can be detected, nearly all in the N. of the parish. A few survive as earthworks, but the majority are in areas which have been heavily ploughed and now appear only as ring-ditches on air photographs. (74) Barrow (96090371), on a gentle N. slope, N. of Badbury Rings, is viisble on an air photograph (C.U.A.P., XZ 13).'

<1.1> CUAP XZ 13 (Aerial Photograph). SDO19365.

<2> Royal Air Force, 28-MAY-1947, RAF CPE/UK/2102 RS 4249 (Aerial Photograph). SDO18090.

<3> Ordnance Survey, 13-SEP-1982, OS/82203 V 125 (Aerial Photograph). SDO18086.

<4> National Record of the Historic Environment, 209548 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Feb 8 2023 12:25PM