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Situated high above the West Okement Valley, Steng-a-Tor is a solitary, weathered granite outcrop with a remote and lonely feel. Its distinctive 'Camel' shape, formed by a humped outcrop and a tall stack, is visible from the north-east.
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Plate from An Exploration of Dartmoor and Its Antiquities, page 272, 1889“A death-like stillness suddenly seemed to rest upon all around, a quiet which was not a calm, and which had something almost unearthly in it.”
Also on Our DartmoorThree hut circles, Hookney Tor — Three hut circles, 6.4 m, 8 m and 6.4 m across, and a 2 m wide upright-stone wall between the two southern ones, on a south-west slope of Hookney Tor.
“I once heard a woman tell one of her daughters, in a Dartmoor cottage, " to log the child's cradle." There, thought I, is a British word ; log means to rock, hence logging, or logan stone.”
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