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A little to the south-east of this summit lies a curious constellation of rock tors, three individual outcrops of fine-grained granite.
Dartmoor has a majesty all of its own, especially when the mist rolls over the tors.
Occasionally, highly visible rocks seem to have been singled out for special attention, as with some of the natural tors on Bodmin Moor.
This involves picking your way through the rocks, which are part of one of the tors on Ben Rinnes.
It is an easy climb from there up on to Beinn Mheadhoin's long, broad ridge where a line of tors, the sabhalan or the barns, leads you to the summit tor.
Teams must arrive back at Anthony Stile by 1700 on the Sunday, having visited all ten tors on their route in order, to qualify for a medal.
The tors used as checkpoints on the Ten Tors challenge in 2013 were as follows, but this is being changed for the 2014 event.
The sea cliffs and inland tors that are now a feature of the county were those that were resistant to weathering that has taken place since.
The summit area bears three rocky tors, the middle one of which is the highest.
Where joints happen to be unusually widely spaced, core blocks can survive and escape above the weathering surface, developing into tors.
Dating of 28 tors on Dartmoor showed that most are surprisingly young, less than 100,000 years old, with none over 200,000 years old.
Those trying for a Bronze medal must camp at one of the manned tors on their route, while Silver and Gold teams may camp anywhere on the moor.
The moorland is capped with many exposed granite hilltops known as tors, providing habitats for Dartmoor wildlife.
Flagpoles on many tors in and around the ranges fly red flags when firing is taking place.
In August 1881, a public meeting was convened by the Portreeve of Tavistock in the Guildhall to discuss the continued taking of stone, particularly from landmark tors.
Contestants face off in the kitchens of Gilgamesh, in the hope of impressing preson tors and judges John Trode and Gregg Wallace and win a place in Thursday's quarter final.
These joints are most clearly seen on exposed pieces of rock such as the Tors of Dartmoor and Bodmin Moor.
Ten Tors is an annual weekend hike in early May, on Dartmoor, southwest England.
The first Ten Tors Expedition took place in September 1960, with around 200 young people taking part.
Ten Tors was cancelled in 2001 due to the foot and mouth epidemic, but went ahead the next year.
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Not only does it give the bold and ivied tors which usually indicate calcareous rock.
The moon shone on it, and it looked like a great shimmering ice-field, with the heads of the distant tors as rocks borne upon its surface.
Our wagonette had topped a rise and in front of us rose the huge expanse of the moor, mottled with gnarled and craggy cairns and tors.
In April 2006, ATP placed the first of several planned wells at Tors, the Kilmar K1, on production.
Each year hundreds of young people from across the country take part in the Ten Tors expedition across Dartmoor.
She said that during the meeting she asked the Director MLC Lahore about the TORs of the above two projects but he totally denied that TORs of the projects were not prepared.
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