Featured: Lost Secrets - an adventure during Neolithic times

Lost Secrets - an adventure during Neolithic times

Singing Up the Country: The Songlines of Avebury and Beyond

Singing Up the Country: The Songlines of Avebury and Beyond

Who's Online

There are currently, 257 guests and 1 members online.

You are a guest. To join in, please register for free by clicking here

Sponsors

<< Our Photo Pages >> Blacknoll Hill - Barrow Cemetery in England in Dorset

Submitted by TimPrevett on Sunday, 08 July 2007  Page Views: 6910

Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Blacknoll Hill
Country: England County: Dorset Type: Barrow Cemetery
Nearest Town: Wool  Nearest Village: East Knighton
Map Ref: SY80638630
Latitude: 50.676035N  Longitude: 2.275496W
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
2 Ambience:
5Superb
4Good
3Ordinary
2Not Good
1Awful
0No data.
2 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.
4 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
4

Internal Links:
External Links:

Blacknoll Hill
Blacknoll Hill submitted by TimPrevett : Some of the candidates for the six depleted barrows on Blacknoll Hill. (Vote or comment on this photo)
Barrow Cemetery in Dorset

Six hard to spot bowl barrows atop Blacknoll Hill, courtesy of gorse, erosion, and infilling of the circular ditches. Vary in diameter from 30 to 60 feet, the highest no more than 4 feet. These are part of a larger group of barrows on Winfrith Heath.
You may be viewing yesterday's version of this page. To see the most up to date information please register for a free account.


Blacknoll Hill
Blacknoll Hill submitted by TimPrevett : The trigpointed barrow, with trigpoint out of sight, viewed from the west, where one ascends Blacknoll Hill. (Vote or comment on this photo)

Blacknoll Hill
Blacknoll Hill submitted by TimPrevett : The trig point mounting probably the easiest barrow to see on Blacknoll Hill. From there, though, the Five Marys, and numerous other barrows are visible. (Vote or comment on this photo)

Do not use the above information on other web sites or publications without permission of the contributor.

Nearby Images from Geograph Britain and Ireland:
SY8086 : Blacknoll Hill, tumuli by Mike Faherty
by Mike Faherty
©2014(licence)
SY8086 : Blacknoll Hill by Mike Faherty
by Mike Faherty
©2014(licence)
SY8086 : Blacknoll Hill, trig point by Mike Faherty
by Mike Faherty
©2014(licence)
SY8086 : Blacknoll, cattle grid by Mike Faherty
by Mike Faherty
©2014(licence)
SY8086 : Winfrith Heath, cattle grid by Mike Faherty
by Mike Faherty
©2014(licence)

The above images may not be of the site on this page, they are loaded from Geograph.
Please Submit an Image of this site or go out and take one for us!


Click here to see more info for this site

Nearby sites

Click here to view sites on an interactive OS map

Key: Red: member's photo, Blue: 3rd party photo, Yellow: other image, Green: no photo - please go there and take one, Grey: site destroyed

Download sites to:
KML (Google Earth)
GPX (GPS waypoints)
CSV (Garmin/Navman)
CSV (Excel)

To unlock full downloads you need to sign up as a Contributory Member. Otherwise downloads are limited to 50 sites.


Turn off the page maps and other distractions

Nearby sites listing. In the following links * = Image available
 2.7km SW 218° Five Marys* Barrow Cemetery (SY790842)
 3.5km SW 233° Lord's Barrow* Round Barrow(s) (SY778842)
 4.2km E 98° Woodman's Cross* Barrow Cemetery (SY84838573)
 5.1km SSW 194° Wardstone Barrow* Round Barrow(s) (SY79338133)
 5.6km SSW 204° Chaldon Down* Barrow Cemetery (SY783812)
 5.7km ESE 109° Coombe Beacon Barrow Cemetery (SY860844)
 6.1km S 171° Hambury Tout Barrows* Barrow Cemetery (SY81588029)
 6.5km SSE 157° Bindon Hill* Hillfort (SY831803)
 6.7km WSW 246° Poxwell Cairn* Cairn (SY74518357)
 6.9km SW 236° Southdown (Dorset)* Barrow Cemetery (SY749825)
 6.9km SSE 150° Bindon Hill Barrows* Barrow Cemetery (SY84078026)
 7.4km SE 127° Water Barrows Round Barrow(s) (SY865818)
 7.5km SE 131° East Lulworth* Barrow Cemetery (SY863814)
 7.5km SE 127° Ferny Barrows* Round Barrow(s) (SY866817)
 7.7km ESE 106° Povington Heath Barrows Barrow Cemetery (SY880841)
 7.9km SE 129° Boat Knoll* Round Barrow(s) (SY867813)
 8.1km SE 135° Flower's Barrow* Hillfort (SY86388056)
 8.3km SE 130° Lulworth stone circle Stone Circle (SY870810)
 8.4km NNE 21° Devil's Stone (Dorset)* Standing Stone (Menhir) (SY837941)
 8.6km W 274° Little Mayne* Stone Circle (SY720870)
 8.9km NNE 27° Wool Road Sarsen Stone* Standing Stone (Menhir) (SY8467394244)
 8.9km NW 304° Heedless William's Stone* Standing Stone (Menhir) (SY732913)
 9.1km NW 309° Rainbarrows* Round Barrow(s) (SY735920)
 9.1km WNW 282° Whitcombe* Standing Stone (Menhir) (SY717883)
 9.5km E 83° Wareham Barrows Barrow Cemetery (SY90128737)
View more nearby sites and additional images

<< Sarmizegetusa Regia Sanctuary

Cluj-Napoca Romanian National History Museum >>

Please add your thoughts on this site

Prehistoric Dorset

Prehistoric Dorset

Sponsors

Auto-Translation (Google)

Translate from English into:

"Blacknoll Hill" | Login/Create an Account | 1 comment
  
Go back to top of page    Comments are owned by the poster. We aren't responsible for their content.
Re: Blacknoll Hill by TimPrevett on Sunday, 08 July 2007
(User Info | Send a Message)
This is a hugely significant site in the history of my prehistoric passion. It's the first place I ever visited just because the word "tumuli" was on the map. Many times I walked from my home at East Burton to do a circuitous route here, watching the eruptions of the Nuclear Power Station's steam high into the sky, or cycled out on a Sunday morning with a cold can of coke and mars bar after doing my paper round in Wool, and sat peacefully among the little lumps. Those were the days of the Commodore 64... long before PCs and the internet! Ah memories...
[ Reply to This ]

Your Name: Anonymous [ Register Now ]
Subject:


Add your comment or contribution to this page. Spam or offensive posts are deleted immediately, don't even bother

<<< What is five plus one as a number? (Please type the answer to this question in the little box on the left)
You can also embed videos and other things. For Youtube please copy and paste the 'embed code'.
For Google Street View please include Street View in the text.
Create a web link like this: <a href="https://www.megalithic.co.uk">This is a link</a>  

Allowed HTML is:
<p> <b> <i> <a> <img> <em> <br> <strong> <blockquote> <tt> <li> <ol> <ul> <object> <param> <embed> <iframe>

We would like to know more about this location. Please feel free to add a brief description and any relevant information in your own language.
Wir möchten mehr über diese Stätte erfahren. Bitte zögern Sie nicht, eine kurze Beschreibung und relevante Informationen in Deutsch hinzuzufügen.
Nous aimerions en savoir encore un peu sur les lieux. S'il vous plaît n'hesitez pas à ajouter une courte description et tous les renseignements pertinents dans votre propre langue.
Quisieramos informarnos un poco más de las lugares. No dude en añadir una breve descripción y otros datos relevantes en su propio idioma.