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The piers of the rail-way and high-way bridges of the New Hindia barrage in IRAQ are resting on clusters of large diameter bored piles. Verification of design was required to prove conformity with technical specifications. A test pile of 1.8 m diameter and 17.7 m depth was employed. The test was further utilized to get better understanding of the behavior of such kind of pile. The pile was provided with three electrical load cells. The foundation soils are mostly sand. It was found that the pile was successfully designed and more than two third of the working load was resisted by shaft friction.