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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; BrokenboroughCountry: England County: Devon Type: Cairn
Nearest Town: Princetown Nearest Village: Princetown
Map Ref: SX6181271945
Latitude: 50.530916N Longitude: 3.951122W
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 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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