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<< Our Photo Pages >> Water hill cairn - Cairn in England in Devon

Submitted by Bladup on Monday, 02 September 2013  Page Views: 2377

Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Water hill cairn Alternative Name: King's Oven Cairn; Water Hill Chambered Cairn; Grinsell Chagford 6
Country: England County: Devon Type: Cairn
Nearest Town: Princetown  Nearest Village: Lettaford / Postbridge
Map Ref: SX67158128
Latitude: 50.616057N  Longitude: 3.879186W
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.
4 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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Water hill cairn
Water hill cairn submitted by Bladup : Water hill cairn long after sunset. (Vote or comment on this photo)
A cairn on the top of Water hill, really great views.

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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Water hill cairn
Water hill cairn submitted by graemefield : The cairn on top of Water Hill as the clouds roll in. (Vote or comment on this photo)

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SX6781 : Cairn on Water Hill by MrC
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SX6781 : Cairn on Water Hill by Guy Wareham
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SX6781 : Cairn, Water Hill by Chris Andrews
by Chris Andrews
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SX6781 : Cairn 489 by Richard Johns
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SX6781 : Water Hill by Guy Wareham
by Guy Wareham
©2009(licence)

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