Monument record MDO2281 - Bronze Age barrow, Tulk's Hill, Puncknowle

Probable Bronze Age bowl barrow with no visible ditch. Now on line of modern field bank. The feature is visible on aerial photographs and was digitally plotted for the South Dorset Ridgeway Mapping Project.

(SY 54868679) A probable bowl barrow. The mound is 10.0m in diameter and 1.3m high, with no visible ditch. It is grass covered and situated on the line of a modern field bank which runs N and S from the barrow. <1>

Probably the remains of a barrow, incorporated in an old hedge-bank. Appromimate diameter 28ft, height 3 1/2 ft. Situated 145 yards NNE of the most easterly barrow on Tulk's Hill. <2>

SY 54868679. Puncknowle 12. Included in list of bowl barrows, with reference to OS records. <3>

One of 6 barrows on top of Tulk's Hill. Probably the remains of a barrow, is approximately 28ft. in diam and 3.5ft. high. It is incorporated in an old hedge bank. (RCHM). The feature is visible on aerial photographs <1> and was digitally plotted for the South Dorset Ridgeway Mapping Project.

<1> 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. … (f), 145 yards N.N.E. of (e), probably the remains of a barrow, is approximately 28 ft. in diam. and 3½ ft. high; it is incorporated in an old hedge-bank.’

<2> Quinnell, N V, Various, Field Investigators Comments NVQ, F1 NVQ 07-APR-55 (Unpublished document). SDO11903.

<3> Grinsell, L V, 1982, Dorset Barrows Supplement (Monograph). SWX1703.

<4> 06-OCT-2000, NMR SY5486/11 (Aerial Photograph). SDO12167.

<5> National Record of the Historic Environment, 450532 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Feb 3 2025 12:50PM