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<< Our Photo Pages >> Royal Hill Cairns (SX618719) - Cairn in England in Devon

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Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Royal Hill Cairns (SX618719) Alternative Name: Grinsell Lydford 93; Butler 65.5.1; Royal Hill E1; Broken Barrow; Brokenborough
Country: England County: Devon Type: Cairn
Nearest Town: Princetown  Nearest Village: Princetown
Map Ref: SX6181271945
Latitude: 50.530916N  Longitude: 3.951122W
Condition:
5Perfect
4Almost Perfect
3Reasonable but with some damage
2Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site
1Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks
0No data.
-1Completely destroyed
3 Ambience:
5Superb
4Good
3Ordinary
2Not Good
1Awful
0No data.
4 Access:
5Can be driven to, probably with disabled access
4Short walk on a footpath
3Requiring a bit more of a walk
2A long walk
1In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find
0No data.
3 Accuracy:
5co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates
4co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map
3co-ordinates scaled from a bad map
2co-ordinates of the nearest village
1co-ordinates of the nearest town
0no data
5

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Royal Hill Cairns (SX618719)
Royal Hill Cairns (SX618719) submitted by Bladup : The big Royal Hill Cairn at SX618719. (Vote or comment on this photo)
There are several cairns, many with cists still to be seen within them which can be found on the slopes of Royal Hill, to the southeast of Princetown.

See our Royal Hill Cairns page for an overview of all sites.

Update December 2019: This cairn is featured on the Prehistoric Dartmoor Walks (PDW) website - see their entry for the Royal Hill Cairn, which tell us: "This impressive disturbed turf-covered cairn on the summit area of Royal Hill at 394m OD. It measures 16.4m (N-S) by 15.6m (E-W) with a maximum height of 1.8m. The flattish top has an off-centre pit 4.5m by 2.4m and 0.8m deep with some upcast material dumped around the top edge. Damage to the perimeter, reported in 1982 (8), has mostly been reinstated".

The cairn is also recorded as Pastscape Monument No. 443349, as MDV6310 (CAIRN in the Parish of Dartmoor Forest) on the Devon and Dartmoor HER, and scheduled as Historic England List Entry No. 1002590 (Cairn S of Royal Hill). Historic England adds: "(this is) a round cairn 745m south-east of Strane Head".
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Nearby Images from Geograph Britain and Ireland:
SX6171 : Cairn on Royal Hill by Guy Wareham
by Guy Wareham
©2009(licence)
SX6272 : Cairn and cist, Royal Hill by Guy Wareham
by Guy Wareham
©2009(licence)
SX6271 : Bridleway by jeff collins
by jeff collins
©2015(licence)
SX6271 : Moorland Bridleway by Tony Atkin
by Tony Atkin
©2014(licence)
SX6271 : High moorland view by jeff collins
by jeff collins
©2015(licence)

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 245m NE 55° Royal Hill Cairns (SX620721)* Cairn (SX6201872079)
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 1.4km SE 132° Fox Tor Newtake South* Cairn (SX62867097)
 1.5km NNE 17° Tor Royal Newtake Stone Row / Alignment (SX623734)
 1.5km S 176° Goldsmith Cross E1 Cist (SX61877040)
 1.6km S 179° Rha cairn circle and cist* Cist (SX6180470321)
 1.6km NNE 16° Moorlands Farm stone row Stone Row / Alignment (SX623735)
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 1.7km S 181° Goldsmith's Cross E3 Cist (SX6174170204)
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 1.8km NE 54° Swincombe cairn circle and cist* Cist (SX63327298)
 2.1km S 183° Whealam cist* Cist (SX61666985)
 2.3km NW 325° Blackabrook* Cairn (SX60527386)
 2.4km NNW 336° Roundhill South West 2* Cist (SX60917414)
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