Monument record MDO5883 - Barrow, one of the Bradford Barrow Group, Pamphill

Barrow with traces of a central pit or grave. 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 31m across with traces of an inner mound. It was digitally plotted during the Dorset Stour NMP.

(ST 98330456) Crop mark of a heavily ploughed round barrow with a diameter of about 70ft and traces of a central pit or grave, visible on air photograph (a). This may be the barrow from which a ridged Collared Urn (ST 90 SE 6) originated. <1>

The site of a plough-levelled round barrow is visible as cropmarks on aerial photographs to the north of Bradford Barrow (3). It is visible as a cropmark ring ditch 31m across with traces of an inner mound. It 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). … (85) Barrow (98330456), with traces of a central pit of grave; diam. about 70 ft.'

<2> Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society, 2000, Proceedings of the Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society for 1999, 151 (Serial). SDO11604.

<3> Ordnance Survey, 24-APR-1988, OS/88055 V 094-5 (Aerial Photograph). SDO16265.

<4> National Record of the Historic Environment, 209586 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Feb 8 2023 4:30PM