Monument record MDO2295 - Bronze Age barrow on Limekiln Hill, Puncknowle

Possible bowl barrow, diameter 21.0m, height 2.0m. It is ditchless, gorse covered, and has suffered from light surface quarrying on the SW which has accentuated the mound. From the NE however it appears more like a part of the natural hill than a barrow. The site is visible on aerial photographs and was digitally plotted for the South Dorset Ridgeway Mapping Project.

'D' - SY 54498690 - Diameter 22 paces, height 6 1/2ft., with a ditch. <1>

'D' - Possible bowl barrow, diameter 21.0m, height 2.0m. It is ditchless, gorse covered, and has suffered from light surface quarrying on the SW which has accentuated the mound. From the
NE however it appears more like a part of the natural hill than a barrow. <3>

The site is visible on aerial photographs <5> and was digitally plotted for the South Dorset Ridgeway Mapping Project.

<1> Grinsell, L V, 1935-54, Dorset Barrows 1935-54 Manuscript (Unpublished document). SWX1556.

<2> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments England, 1952, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume I (West), 191 (Monograph). SDO97.

<3> Quinnell, N V, Various, Field Investigators Comments NVQ, F1 NVQ 07-APR-55 (Unpublished document). SDO11903.

<4> Ordnance Survey, Ordnance Survey Map 6in, 1968 (Map). SWX1540.

(SY 54498690) Mound (NR)

<5> 06-OCT-2000, NMR SY5486/4 (Aerial Photograph). SDO12166.

<6> National Record of the Historic Environment, 450517 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

May 8 2024 11:37AM