Monument record MDO5880 - Barrow, one of the Bradford Barrow Group, Pamphill

The site of a plough-levelled round barrow is visible as cropmarks on aerial photographs to the north of Bradford Barrow. It is visible as a cropmark ring ditch 30m across and was digitally plotted during the Dorset Stour NMP.

(ST 98110496) Crop mark of heavily ploughed barrow having a diameter of about 80ft appears on air photograph. <1>

The site of a plough-levelled round barrow is visible as cropmarks on aerial photographs to the north of Bradford Barrow <2>. It is visible as a cropmark ring ditch 30m across and was digitally plotted during the Dorset Stour NMP.

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

'Bradford Barrow Group comprises five barrows in a scatter extending N.W.- S.E., towards the end of a low spur. All but the Bradford Barrow have been heavily ploughed and now appear only as ring-ditches on an air photograph (N.M.R., ST 9806/1). A ridged collared urn, from a possible barrow near Old Lawn Farm, may come from (85), (Arch. J., CXIX (1962), 11, 65 and fig. 3). … (82) Barrow (98110496); diam. about 80 ft.'

<2> GetMapping, 2005, Digital vertical aerial photographs (Aerial Photograph). SDO12563.

<3> National Record of the Historic Environment, 209561 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Dec 21 2023 8:04PM