'On the top [of Great Miss Tor] is a natural rock-basin, called Mis Tor Pan, about 10 feet in circumference, which is supposed to be the work of the Druids, to whom anything prehistoric is readily attributed, when we know little about them. From another agent to whom superstitious country folk are apt to credit anything mysterious, it gets the nickname The Devil's Frying Pan; but it is apparently natural. At the top of Vixen Tor are three similar basins, and they occur frequently on other parts of the moor.
Hope Moncrieff 1895
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| Vixen Tor - Cresswell 1921 |
[I know of one on Kes Tor, and the puggie-stone near Chagford may well have one, though I haven't seen it. In the Isles of Scilly on St Agnes there is the Punch Bowl - also in granite. The picture bellow is of the basin on Kes Tor]
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