Monument record MDO2278 - Bronze Age barrow on Limekiln Hill, Puncknowle

Bowl barrow grass covered and flattened on top. Diameter 21.0m, height 1.8m. It is slightly mutilated at the sides, with no visible ditch. The feature is visible on aerial photographs {2} and was digitally plotted for the South Dorset Ridgeway Mapping Project.

'C' - Diameter 20 paces, height 6ft. <2>

'C' - Bowl barrow grass covered and flattened on top. Diameter 21.0m, height 1.8m. It is slightly mutilated at the sides, with 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 54468685) 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 Grinsell, L V, 1935-54, Dorset Barrows 1935-54 Manuscript (Unpublished document).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. … (c), 175 yards S.E. of (b), is a bowl barrow 54 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 Quinnell, N V, Various, Field Investigators Comments NVQ, F1 NVQ 07-APR-55 (Unpublished document).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 54468685) 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 12:52PM