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Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Water hill cairn Alternative Name: King's Oven Cairn; Water Hill Chambered Cairn; Grinsell Chagford 6Country: England County: Devon Type: Cairn
Nearest Town: Princetown Nearest Village: Lettaford / Postbridge
Map Ref: SX67158128
Latitude: 50.616057N Longitude: 3.879186W
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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Average ratings for this site from all visit loggers: Condition: 3 Ambience: 4 Access: 3
Update November 2019: This cairn is featured on the Prehistoric Dartmoor Walks (PDW) website - see their entry for the King's Oven (Water Hill) Cairn, which tells us: "(This cairn is) on the rounded summit of Water Hill is the remains of a substantial round cairn 18.0 metres in diameter and up to 1.4 metres high in the east and 0.9 metres in the west. The whole of the central area of the cairn has been robbed to construct a superimposed modern boundary cairn 4.0 metres in diam and 2.1 metres high".
The cairn is also recorded as Pastscape Monument No. 443801, as MDV6675 (Barrow, King Arthur's Oven) on the Devon and Dartmoor HER, and scheduled as part of Historic England List Entry No. 1019225 (Two cairns on the summit of Water Hill 450m north west of Warren House Inn).
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