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Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Duel Cross Hill (Grafton) Alternative Name: Deuill Cross Hill; Devil's CrossCountry: England
NOTE: This site is 3.479 km away from the location you searched for.
County: Yorkshire (North) Type: Cairn
Nearest Town: Grafton
Map Ref: SE426634
Latitude: 54.064788N Longitude: 1.350606W
Condition:
| 5 | Perfect |
| 4 | Almost Perfect |
| 3 | Reasonable but with some damage |
| 2 | Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site |
| 1 | Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks |
| 0 | No data. |
| -1 | Completely destroyed |
| 5 | Superb |
| 4 | Good |
| 3 | Ordinary |
| 2 | Not Good |
| 1 | Awful |
| 0 | No data. |
| 5 | Can be driven to, probably with disabled access |
| 4 | Short walk on a footpath |
| 3 | Requiring a bit more of a walk |
| 2 | A long walk |
| 1 | In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find |
| 0 | No data. |
| 5 | co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates |
| 4 | co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map |
| 3 | co-ordinates scaled from a bad map |
| 2 | co-ordinates of the nearest village |
| 1 | co-ordinates of the nearest town |
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Cairn in Yorkshire (North)
This now destroyed tumulus is described on The Northern Antiquarian's (TNA) page for Duel Cross Hill, Grafton, North Yorkshire.
TNA include a description from 1787 which says the tumulus known as the Devil's Cross: "whose elevation is about 18 feet, and circumference at the base 370 feet. It was broken into some time since to supply materials for the repair of the high road leading from Aldborough to York. The soil consists, first, of a black earth, and under that a red sandy gravel, human bones, some of which are entire, and urns of various sizes. The urns are composed of blue clay and sand, some ornamented and others quite plain; several Roman coins have also been found here ... Not far from this long lost tumulus, a curious carved stone figure was located “among ancient foundations” in a cellar! Thought to be a local deity, it may have been a carved representation of whichever figure or spirit ancestor was buried in Duel Cross Hill.”
TNA include drawings of the carved stone figure and a cairn found in the mound.
More information can be found on Pastscape Monument No. 55288, which adds: "(At SE 4271 6327) a Roman milestone of Decius [Trajan Decius, 249-51] was found at Duel Cross in 1778. About 200 yards from the find-spot and beside the York road was a tumulus (described as a morainic mound by Wood), known as Devil or Duel Cross, and 18 feet high and 370 feet in circumference. It was opened c. 1785 to provide road metal and finds included cinerary urns, one at least probably Anglian, inhumation burials and many Roman coins including coins of Vespasian, Domitian and Trajan. The milestone is now in Aldborough Manor museum and is a near cylindrical, inscribed, sandstone pillar, 11" in diameter and 4'11" high. See AO/63/109/7. The site of the mound was probably at SE 4285 6335 which is the highest point of the hill but no evidence of a mound remains."
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