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Old books sometimes spell "Hen Tor" differently. Which of these is one of those spellings?
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Historic England's scheduling record (list entry 1019578) describes a cairn with a cist on a gentle north-west-facing slope above Ingra Tor. The mound is 7.6 metres across and up to 0.8 metres high, with big stones showing through the surface and no sign of a kerb. A hollow in the middle holds a cist, partly hidden at the north end by its cover stone. It is a stone-lined pit 1.24 metres long, 0.66 metres wide and 0.45 metres deep, which would originally have held a burial and was opened by past excavation. It lies in the parish of Walkhampton, about 0.6 km north-west of Leeden Tor and 2.4 km east of Sampford Spiney.
Sources: Historic England list entry 1019578, which cites Butler, Dartmoor Atlas of Antiquities (1994), page 51.
- Period: Bronze Age
- Status: Scheduled monument (Historic England list entry 1019578)
- Grid reference: SX 5587 7208 (approximate, from the listing's coordinates)
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