Monument record MDO5879 - Round barrow, one of the Bradford Barrow Group, Pamphill

The site of a Bronze Age round barrow is visible as cropmarks on aerial photographs to the east of Bradford Farm Cottages. It is visible as a ring ditch, 26m across, with a central pit 6m across. The site was digitally plotted during the Dorset Stour NMP.

The site of a Bronze Age round barrow is visible as cropmarks on aerial photographs to the east of Bradford Farm Cottages (2). It is visible as a ring ditch, 26m across, with a central pit 6m across. The site 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). (81) Barrow (98090505), with traces of a central grave or pit; diam. about 80 ft.'

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

Record last edited

Apr 11 2018 2:44PM