I have certainly encountered 'dinosaurs', too unaware of being 'doomed'. I will give two specimens. They were Mesolithic, so that artifacts include fabrication residues. He could otherwise never have proved it so, nor defined its regal character. Interpretation is affected, thus, by the notion of a royal household, a notion which pure prehistory has not got.
Royalty means the top of a class society, graded, stratified.
Sites significant institutionally, and to be viewed as types accordingly, enter the question only later. Try it backwards. Note the special case of Roman ones. Then attempt the case of the Iron Age. As with the early Anglo-Saxon age, this is mirrored in its burials, and the ornaments and weapons befitting an upper but not a lower class.