Monument record MDO5881 - 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 24m across and was digitally plotted during the Dorset Stour NMP.

The site of a plough-levelled round barrow is visible as cropmarks on aerial photographs to the north of Bradford Barrow <4>. It is visible as a cropmark ring ditch 24m 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), 53 (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). … (83) Barrow (98160484), markedly oval in plan; diam. about 80 ft. by 55 ft.'

<1.1> NMR ST 9806/1 (Aerial Photograph). SDO19377.

<2> Royal Commission on Historic Monuments, Externally held archive: RCH01/091 RCHME Inventory: Dorset V (East) (Unpublished document). SDO18032.

<3> Grinsell, L V, 1982, Dorset Barrows Supplement, 46 (Monograph). SWX1703.

<4> GetMapping, 2005, Digital vertical aerial photographs (Aerial Photograph). SDO12563.

<5> National Record of the Historic Environment, 209585 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Feb 9 2023 2:47PM