[2] Knowlton church stands in the middle of the henge, and symbolises the transition from pagan to Christian worship.

[3] Early Christian activity at Knowlton is indicated by a mid-to-late Anglo-Saxon inhumation cemetery which was discovered to the east of Church Henge in 1958.

[4] Excavations located sixteen burials within chalk-cut graves, some aligned east-west.

[5] It appears to be an elongated oval enclosure comprising a ditch with external bank, orientated roughly northwest to south east with a maximum diameter of 94 metres.

[6] It still partially survives as an earthwork though it has suffered from ploughing and parts are better visible as cropmarks.

[6] The henge is now bisected by the Cranborne to Wimborne road, and farm buildings occupy part of the western side.

[6] Old Churchyard (grid reference SU02241037) is an enclosure of uncertain origin and function situated southwest of the North Circle.

[7] It is a rounded square in plan, about 60 metres in diameter, and is bounded by a low bank and an external ditch.

[10] This cluster of barrows indicates that the Knowlton Circles were an important religious centre.