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Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Royal Hill Cairns (SX621723) Alternative Name: Royal Hill E4; Grinsell Lydford 89; Turner E21; Royal Hill (N); Dixon 23; Butler (V4 65.5)Country: England County: Devon Type: Cairn
Nearest Town: Princetown Nearest Village: Princetown
Map Ref: SX6208272334
Latitude: 50.534476N Longitude: 3.947459W
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 |
| 0 | no data |
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Update December 2019: This cist is featured on the Prehistoric Dartmoor Walks (PDW) website - see their entry for the Royal Hill, Central Platform Cairn Circle and Cist, which tells us: "The cairn has an overall diameter of about 7.5m in diameter, and 0.6m high, with a flattish top. There are traces of an inner kerb 4.5m in diameter, and an outer one 5.7m across comprising boulders and slabs, the largest 1.5m long, 0.6m high, and 0.2m thick. The interior of the central cist is about 0.8m square with four stones up to 0.25m thick and 0.6m deep but the southern one overlaps the sides, is 1m long, and gives the cist its NW to SE alignment. This and the two end stones incline inwards; the northern one inclines slightly outwards. There is no cover stone".
The cist is also recorded as Pastscape Monument No. 443331, and as MDV6304 (Cist on Royal Hill) on the Devon and Dartmoor HER.
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