Monument record MDO5882 - Bradford Barrow, Pamphill

The site of a Bronze Age round barrow is visible as earthworks on aerial photographs to the east of Old Lawn Farm. The surviving barrow mound is 30m across and was digitally plotted during the Dorset Stour NMP. A trial excavation of Bradford barrow in 1968 to assess quarry damage discovered a sherd of Romano British pottery, a piece of iron and an oyster shell in the surrounding ditch indicating a Romano British date.

Bradford Barrow, a bowl barrow consisting of a large conical mound 118ft in diameter and 20ft high, with traces of a surrounding ditch. According to Grinsell the profile of the mound suggests the possibility of a Roman date. <1> <5> The barrow was excavated in 1969. <3> NE of Bradford Barrow a quarry has breached about 30ft of the barrow ditch. A trial excavation carried out in 1969 to assess the damage revealed the ditch to be flat bottomed and about 6ft wide and 4 1/2ft deep. There were very few finds but a piece of corroded iron work from the undisturbed clay fill proved that the mound was not Bronze Age. An oyster shell and a Romano-British sherd were also found and a Romano-British date for the mound is strongly inferred. <4> The site of a Bronze Age round barrow is visible as earthworks on aerial photographs to the east of Old Lawn Farm <6>. The surviving barrow mound is 30m across and was digitally plotted during the Dorset Stour NMP.

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Feb 3 2023 3:21PM