Monument record MDO2277 - Bronze Age barrow on Limekiln Hill, Puncknowle

Bowl barrow, grass and gorse covered. Diameter 19.0m, height 1.7m. There is no visible ditch. The feature is visible on aerial photographs and was digitally plotted for the South Dorset Ridgeway Mapping Project.

'B' - Diameter 21 paces, height 6ft. <2>

'B' - Bowl barrow, grass and gorse covered. Diameter 19.0m, height 1.7m. There is no visible ditch. <4>

The feature is visible on aerial photographs <6> and was digitally plotted for the South Dorset Ridgeway Mapping Project.

<1> Ordnance Survey, Ordnance Survey Map 6in, 1903 (Map). SWX1540.

(SY 54368698) Tumulus (NR)

<2> Grinsell, L V, 1935-54, Dorset Barrows 1935-54 Manuscript (Unpublished document). SWX1556.

<3> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments England, 1952, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume I (West), 191 (Monograph). SDO97.

‘(11) Barrows, on the ridge of Tulk's Hill, 1 to 1½ m. S.E. of the church, are six in number. … (b), 265 yards S.E. of (a), is a bowl barrow 33 ft. in diam. and 5 ft. high.’

<4> Quinnell, N V, Various, Field Investigators Comments NVQ, F1 NVQ 07-APR-55 (Unpublished document). SDO11903.

<5> Ordnance Survey, Ordnance Survey Map 6in, 1968 (Map). SWX1540.

(SY 54368698) Tumulus (NR)

<6> 06-OCT-2000, NMR SY5486/4 (Aerial Photograph). SDO12166.

<7> National Record of the Historic Environment, 450517 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Feb 3 2025 12:53PM