North Hessary Tor 3 Reported Cist
Database entries
OS Map: SX 578 742
OS Source: Constructed
PMD: Hessary Tor
Alternate name: North Hessary Tor 3
Short Name: CT?North Hes3
Butler map: 44.9.3
Grinsell: List B WALKHAMPTON 36
Exist: Maybe
Record: Unique
Record Source: Butler
Cist Class: Maybe
Cairn Class: Maybe
Lidar: SX 578 742
Nearby sites: SX 578 742
Notes
Dilapidated cairn 'remarkable for beign double kisted' (Bate 1871). Grinsell doubtful site. Could be HER 5015, see also WAL 8. Butler suggests that Bate was possibly referring to the rather confused structure of the Yellowmead cist well down the western slopes (Butler Vol 3 p.33).References
These are selected references with an emphasis on out of copyright sources linked as PDFs. For more detailed references try any linked HER or PMD record above.
- Butler, Jeremy, Dartmoor Atlas of Antiquities, vol.3: The South-West, (1994)
- Grinsell, L.V., Dartmoor Barrows, Devon Archaeological Society Proceedings No.36 (1978)