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This is a giant kink in the ramparts on the south side, overlooking the village of Winterbourne Monkton.

One of the scruffier barrows on this site.

The long barrow from the Ridgeway, looking south.

Part of a possible stone circle built into a wall behind the Portland Heights hotel.

More possible ex standing stones.

Two of the larger stones.

More of the alledged standing stones built into a wall on Easton road.

Stones built into a wall on Easton road.

This is the actual Culverwell after which the site is named.

This building covers the site of the mesolithic encampment.

The sign which gives details of the site.

The eastern rampart, with a notch in it.

A length of the eastern rampart.

The western rampart / hillside, with garage to show some scale.

The south west corner where the bank dips down.

One of the barrows from the main road to Swanage, I took this photo oppposite the school in the valley below the barrows.

The south east corner of the hillfort.

Ridge Hill barrows from the A35 roman road as it exits Dorchester, these are the central ones.

Clandon Barrow from the north east.

Three barrows on Grove Hill from the A35 near Dorchester.

Looking down from Eype Down to the south.

Looking up from the A35 road to the south east.

A linear feature on the flat part of the hill.

The second biggest of the barrows, this between the largest and smallest.

This is shot from the top of a round barrow near Thorncombe Beacon to the east.

Hardown Hill from Eype Down.

The rear of Doghouse Hill from Eype Down, looking south.

Doghouse Hill from Thorncombe Beacon.

The smaller barrow looking south, the summit of the big one can just be seen.

The smaller barrow, from the top of the biggest looking north.

The biggest barrow from the top of the beacon, also in line is the smallest, Eype down barrow and Colmer’s Hill.

The largest of the barrows, set back from the edge of the cliff, Thorncombe Beacon itself is on the cliff edge.

The barrow is in the middle distance, with Colmer’s hill in the background, the largest of the Thorncombe Beacon barrows is in the foreground.

The barrow from the east.

The southern range from the South Dorset Ridgeway, from a very damaged barrow, Bincombe 31.

Celtic field system, south of the village of Sydling St Nicholas.

An extension of the field system on the hill to the east.

These three bowl barrows are just to the east of the hybrid bell/disc barrow.

Three northern outliers.

One of the northern outliers from the main group.

One of the central, medium sized bowl barrows.

This large hole is in the centre of the bell barrow, doubtless made by some 19th century antiquarian.

A very small barrow from the top of the bell barrow.

Looking west at the smallest and largest barrows on the site.

The large bell barrow with a smaller bowl barrow in the foreground.

These are the westerly barrows.

The ditch and berm of the big bell barrow.

The western, large bowl barrow.