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Cairn with cist S of Royal Hill is a Bronze Age burial monument located in Devon, England. The site consists of a cairn, a mound constructed from stone, which contains a cist, a stone-built burial chamber typical of Bronze Age funerary practice. The monument represents the funerary customs of the Bronze Age communities of the southwest peninsula, when such stone-built graves beneath cairns were the predominant burial rite. The precise dating and dimensions of this particular monument are preserved in the Devon Historic Environment Record and the National Heritage List for England entry 1002591.
Cairn with cist S of Royal Hill is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1002591. View the official record →
Cairn with cist S of Royal Hill is a Bronze Age burial monument located in Devon, England. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1002591.
Cairn with cist S of Royal Hill is a Scheduled Ancient Monument, legally protected by Historic England (NHLE) — the body responsible for designating and safeguarding heritage sites in England. The official designation reference is 1002591.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Deserted post-medieval farmstead and part of the surrounding field system at High House Waste (9.7 km), Cairn west of Stalldown (9.8 km), Cairn north-east of Harrowthorn Plantation (9.9 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of Cairn with cist S of Royal Hill's history, each drawn from the record and mapped to the exact spot:
Every location is different. Not every section appears for every place, only what the historical record actually holds turns up in a report.
Cairn with cist S of Royal Hill stands on Unnamed Igneous Intrusion, Carboniferous To Permian, bedrock that formed in the Permian. The rock here is felsic-rock.