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Round Hill S.E.4 Cairn Circle & Cist

Database entries

OS Map: SX 6063 7396
OS Source: Butler
Butler OS: SX60637396
HER: MDV6250
PMD: Roundhill Leat
Alternate name: Round Hill S.E.4
Short Name: CN:RoundhilSE4
Butler map: 65.3.4
Grinsell: LYDFORD 83
Exist: Yes
Record: Unique
Record Source: Butler
Hut Class: No
Cist Class: Maybe
Cairn Class: Yes
Dimensions (m): c.7.0
Lidar: SX 6063 7396
Guide Map: 34
Nearest Bus Stop: Two Bridges Hotel (1.4 km) [Route: 98,171(20/07/26 to 19/09/26)]
Nearby sites: SX 6063 7396

Notes

Prowse 1901. Cairn with retaining circle. Remnant of a small cairn enclosing portions of two kists side by side, level with the surface and nearly filled up with soil. Note - cists no longer visible. The HER gives SX 6065 7396 as the location putting the site 20 metres to the east of the NGR for this record.

HER (1950): Retaining circle can be traced for greater part of its circuit and eleven stones were found. What must be the eastern most slab of eastern kist still projects a little way above turf, which covers whole area. But other slabs are apparently buried now. The general condition of the cairn which measures 5.5 metres in diameter is poor.

Butler: Beside the track 150 metres north-east of the group of three cists beside the Blackbrook River, is a small multiple cairn circle. The burial mound has gone completely revealing some 25 stones on edge barely higher than the turf arranged in at least four concentric rings, the outer one about 7 metres across. Its position corresponds to the cairn mentioned by Prowse in 1901 which he describes as containing two cists side by side but nothing of these is to be seen.

References

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