Bully Hills
The protected Bully Hills (not to be confused with Bully Hill at Market Rasen ) are a Bronze Age round hill necropolis , southeast of Tathwell in Lincolnshire in England .
The southwest-northeast-oriented Bully Hills form a series of seven burial mounds along a ridge. Six are close together and form a row about 120 meters long. The seventh hill of the group is about 225 meters away in the northeast. While hills # 1, 5 and 6 are only 1.0 to 1.5 meters high, the highest hill (# 4) is about 3.0 meters high and hill # 2 is only slightly lower. Hill # 3 is about 2.0 meters high. Their diameters range from about 25.0 meters (# 3) to 12.0 meters for hill # 1, 5, and 6. Hill # 7 is inexplicably far from the main group, but on the same line. It is about 3.0 meters high and about 16.0 meters in diameter. The Bully Hills can be seen from some distance from the west. The group is about halfway up the slope, while Hill No. 7 is near the crest. It could be that hill # 7 was built first and the other hills were added later.
There are no records of excavations or finds on the site, but hill no. 3 shows traces of excavation or looting that resulted in a gap in the northwest and a crater at its top, and it could be that this hill was once taller than the rest of the group.
A well-preserved large round hill called Bully Hill is located off the B1225, the "High Street" near Tealby in Lincolnshire.
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Coordinates: 53 ° 19 ′ 26 ″ N , 0 ° 0 ′ 16.1 ″ W.
