TORS OF DARTMOOR
a database of both lesser & well-known rocks and outcrops
Little Hen Tor
 Ascending the hill, you'll begin to doubt you'll find little else of ruined Little Hen Tor, but as you near the highest point of this rubble, you will come across a section that is exposed bedrock (shown above).  Crossing has little to say of this ruined tor when seen from the large Hen Tor; "Some rocks northward of the pile bear the name of Little Hen Tor." Hemery says no more; "...near the (Shavercombe) brook, a scattering of rocks represents the shattered remnant of Little Hen Tor." Confusion over the location of Little Hen Tor was fuelled by Terry Bound who in 1991 placed it to the south of the main pile. This error was repeated by Brown in 1995 where he gives a Grid Reference of SX 5934 6528. However, Terry Bound in A to Z revised edition in 1995 changes his stance.  Tim Jenkinson writes; "In recent times both Bound (1991) and Brown (1995) have implied that Little Hen is the small stack to the south of the main Hen Tor pile. However, this is a false impression and interestingly Terry Bound revised his stance on this in 1995 to support earlier descriptions of the area from both Crossing and Hemery (both stated above). Tim Jenkinson also supplied the Grid Reference of SX 5980 6570 describing it as: "A tor reduced to rubble, its debris forms a dense clitter on the north side", adding "Devoid of a crown this unlikeliest of tors does possess some very large and long but mostly flat boulders in its midst, none of which are more than a metre high"." 
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