Monument record MDO2279 - Bronze Age barrow, Tulk's Hill, Puncknowle

A bowl barrow with a hollow in the top. Diameter of mound, 18 paces, height 4ft. The feature is visible on aerial photographs and was digitally plotted for the South Dorset Ridgeway Mapping Project.

Three grass covered bowl barrows with no trace of surrounding ditches. … 'B' - Diameter 15.0m, height 2.0m taken to the west. There is a slight central depression. <3>

'B' - A well formed bowl barrow, diameter 16 paces, height 5ft. <5>

One of 6 barrows on top of Tulk's Hill. Bowl barrow, 54ft. In diam and 4ft. High (RCHM). The feature is visible on aerial photographs <8> and was digitally plotted for the South Dorset Ridgeway Mapping Project.

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

('A' - SY 54798668, 'B' - SY 54838667) Tumuli (NR)

<2> 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. … (d). 390 yards S.E. of (c), is a bowl barrow about 54 ft. in diam. and 5 ft. high.’

<3> Swatridge, G C, Various, Field Investigators Comments GCS, F1 GCS 21-MAR-55 (Unpublished document). SWX1169.

<4> Ordnance Survey, Ordnance Survey Large Scale/Small Scale Map Reviser's comments, W G Cutmore 28/03/1957 (Verbal communication). SDO19451.

<5> Grinsell, L V, 1959, Dorset Barrows, 129 (Monograph). SDO132.

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

(SY 54798668, SY 54838667, SY 54858668) Tumuli (NR)

<7> Department of the Environment, 1978, Department of the Environment (IAM) Ancient Monuments of England (Vol 2), 68 (Monograph). SWX1687.

<8> 06-OCT-2000, NMR SY5486/11 (Aerial Photograph). SDO12167.

<9> National Record of the Historic Environment, 450538 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Feb 3 2025 12:51PM