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<< Our Photo Pages >> Bully Hills - Barrow Cemetery in England in Lincolnshire

Submitted by Andy B on Tuesday, 03 December 2002  Page Views: 8847

Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Bully Hills
Country: England
NOTE: This site is 4.767 km away from the location you searched for.

County: Lincolnshire Type: Barrow Cemetery
Nearest Town: Louth  Nearest Village: Tathwell
Map Ref: TF33128272  Landranger Map Number: 122
Latitude: 53.324667N  Longitude: 0.002783W
Condition:
5Perfect
4Almost Perfect
3Reasonable but with some damage
2Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site
1Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks
0No data.
-1Completely destroyed
3 Ambience:
5Superb
4Good
3Ordinary
2Not Good
1Awful
0No data.
3 Access:
5Can be driven to, probably with disabled access
4Short walk on a footpath
3Requiring a bit more of a walk
2A long walk
1In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find
0No data.
5 Accuracy:
5co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates
4co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map
3co-ordinates scaled from a bad map
2co-ordinates of the nearest village
1co-ordinates of the nearest town
0no data
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Catrinm visited on 1st Jan 2022 - their rating: Cond: 4 Amb: 4 Access: 5 Tbis is such an underrated site - the key barrows area very high impressive from a distance . If this was in Wiltshire it would be well kniw - seven barrows in alignment

oldman visited on 25th Oct 2018 Show up well from the road

Catrinm visited - their rating: Cond: 3 Amb: 4 Access: 4 These are fantastic and under yrecognised as a great site

Andy B have visited here

Average ratings for this site from all visit loggers: Condition: 3.5 Ambience: 4 Access: 4.5

Bully Hills
Bully Hills submitted by Creative Commons : Tumuli at Bully Hill View of these ancient mounds or barrows, taken from the roadside. Copyright Ian Paterson and licensed for reuse under the Creative Commons Licence. (Vote or comment on this photo)
Barrow Cemetery of seven bowl barrows in Lincolnshire

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Bully Hills submitted by ScrumpyRich : Bully Hills (a corruption of burial hills?) is a series of roughly aligned mounds (i say roughly, because they were excavated in Victorian times and the true shape is lost) with a further one on the horizon a couple of hundred yards to the northeast. From the line of the main group, summer solstice sun rises over the outlying mound (the larger tree on the photo grows form the mound). For... (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Bully Hills submitted by Bladup : Bully Hills. (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Bully Hills submitted by Catrinm : Bully Hills 10122 (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Bully Hills submitted by Antonine : Visited 2015 (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Bully Hills submitted by Andy B : Rotate Test (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Bully Hills submitted by catrinm : Underrated impressive series of seven barriws on the skyline in Lincolnshire.

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Bully Hills submitted by oldman : Distance view of the barrows

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Bully Hills submitted by oldman : View across the barrows

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Bully Hills submitted by Bladup : Bully Hills.

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Bully Hills submitted by Bladup : A very strange coloured north sea sunset at Bully Hills.

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Bully Hills submitted by Bladup : Bully Hills.

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Re: Bully Hills by Andy B on Thursday, 15 November 2018
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Aerial photo
https://www.aerialphotography.org.uk/AerialArchaeology/Lincolnshire-Long-Barrows/i-2K3XGqn
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Re: Bully Hills by Catrinm on Tuesday, 29 May 2018
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This is probably the best site in Lincolnshire
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Re: Bully Hills by Andy B on Saturday, 02 September 2017
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Pastscape http://www.pastscape.org.uk/hob.aspx?hob_id=354655
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Bully Hills Street View by Andy B on Thursday, 01 April 2010
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Re: Bully Hills by Anonymous on Thursday, 03 February 2005
Couldn't find a path to Bully Hills but as we were only 100 yds away on a farm lane we had quite a good view
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