Monument record MDO5499 - Mound, Noddle Hill, Cranborne

A mound known as Noddle Hill. The mound is situated in woodland, and has been damaged by small-scale quarrying and the insertion of a water tank. Traces of what may be a ditch and external bank survive in an undisturbed area next to the mound, so it has been tentatively identified as a round barrow, perhaps a bell barrow.

<1> Ordnance Survey, Ordnance Survey Map 6in, 1902 (Map). SWX1540.

(SU 06571488) Noddle Hill (NR)

<2> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England), 1975, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume V (East), 15-16 (Monograph). SDO129.

'(37) Mound (06571488), known as Noddle Hill, lies in woodland on the summit of a ridge W. of Boveridge House. It is roughly oval (120 ft. by 80 ft. and 12 ft. high), and is partly surrounded by a level area which may be the remains of a shallow ditch with an external bank. The mound has been extensively damaged by quarrying and by the insertion of a water-tank in the top.'

<3> National Record of the Historic Environment, 213646 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

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Aug 16 2022 4:04PM