Monument record MDO5893 - Round barrow near Badbury Rings, Pamphill

In 1963 observations by N H Field along the line of the Badbury-Hamworthy Roman Road reveaked a possible Bronze Age barrow. The monument was recorded as a ditch around 35 feet in diameter.

ST 9678 0297. Ring ditch to the east of Badbury Rings and south-west of the Badbury - Hamworthy Roman Road (RR 4d). <1>

The southern ditch of the Roman Road (RR 4d) bisects a barrow represented by a ditch 35 feet wide. A section across the north side of this ditch showed it to be almost 4 feet wide at the top and cut 1 foot 7 inches into the chalk. <2>

<1> Grinsell, L V, 1982, Dorset Barrows Supplement, 46 (Monograph). SWX1703.

<2> Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society, 1988, Proceedings of the Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society for 1987, 123-124 (Serial). SDO87.

‘The Badbury-Hamworthy Roman road, and a possible Bronze Age barrow near Badbury Rings. Mr. N. H. Field contributes the result of observation after the spring ploughing in the field east of the Pamphill-Shapwick parish boundary. The Roman road here, beginning its alignment to the Stour crossing west of Wimborne, has long been ploughed flat, but the side ditches showed clearly 84ft. apart centre to centre. The southern ditch, which meets the track on the near side of the parish boundary at a point 46 feet from the corner of the field by the modern gate, bisected what appeared to be the remains of a barrow (ST 95780297), represented by a ditch some 35 feet in diameter centre to centre. A section across the north side of this ditch showed it to be about 4 feet wide at top and cut some 1ft. 7ins. deep in the chalk below about 1ft. 3ins. of topsoil.’

<3> National Record of the Historic Environment, 912128 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

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Feb 9 2023 3:24PM