Monument record MDO2282 - Round barrow on Tulk's Hill, Puncknowle

Three grass covered bowl barrows with no trace of surrounding ditches. … 'C' - SY 54858668. Diameter 7.0m, height 0.5m. <1>

'C' - SY 54858668. I have perambulated the area and have been unable to locate this tumulus. <2>

One of a group of three Bronze Age bowl barrows on Tulk's Hill. The western barrow has a mound, 15 metres in diameter and 1.5 metres high, which has had a trench, 2 metres wide, excavated into it from the south, opening out into a central hollow, 4 metres in diameter and 0.7 metres deep. This is said to be the result from an unrecorded amateur excavation carried out before World War II. The cental barrow has a mound, 18 metres in diameter and 1.5 metres high, and the eastern barrow has a mound, 10 metres in diameter and 0.3 metres high. All are surrounded by quarry ditches from which material was excavated during their construction, now visible as slight depressions 3 metres wide. Scheduled.

<1> Swatridge, G C, Various, Field Investigators Comments GCS, F1 GCS 21-MAR-55 (Unpublished document). SWX1169.

<2> Ordnance Survey, Ordnance Survey Large Scale/Small Scale Map Reviser's comments, W G Cutmore 28/03/1957 (Verbal communication). SDO19451.

<3> Ordnance Survey, Ordnance Survey Map 6in, 1968 (Map). SWX1540.

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

<4> National Record of the Historic Environment, 450538 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

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Oct 7 2024 1:52PM