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Shapley Tor is a low, scattered collection of granite outcrops on the gentle slope of Shapley Common. The largest feature is a tilted boulder on the north-west shoulder, with some larger granite blocks nearby.
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Shoveldown Stone Rows. Photograph by Glavind Strachan Photography“Upon the first heather ridges the cold breath of the Moor touched the man to patience and brought him nearer himself.”
Also on Our DartmoorQuintin's Man (Cairn) — A Bronze Age cairn standing on the open moor, its stones weathered by millennia of Dartmoor wind and rain.
“the country doctor, in hail, rain, snow, or storm, must turn out of a warm bed and ride, often to the dreary waste of Dartmoor, through rough roads and darkness, at the call of humanity,”
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