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The Fox Tor Elephant/ Mammoth’s Skull!) Can you see it?! I believe this was first noticed by Hemery.. (the ‘two scoops’ are ancient rock basins that Hemery saw as eye sockets of a Mammoth Skull!) Although I fancy an Elephant with its trunk can also be spotted if you look carefully enough!

Trumpety-Trump! A close up!

So.. here is a clue.. trumpety-trumpety!! Excuse the awful drawing – I used the mouse instead of bothering to get out the Wacom tablet! (RJN)

These dual rock basins are awesome, tilted as they are on the eastern edge of the southernmost and highest outcrop of Fox Tor. Eric Hemery is the one who uses the ‘Mammoth Skull’ name/description; “The two northern piles of the tor, one bearing a shallow rock basin, constitute Eden Phillpott’s “twin turrets”, while the southern pile, the point of the triangle, possesses an object of great interest in the fallen summit-rock that bears on its surface two large basins like eye-sockets in the skull of a mammoth greater than pre-history ever knew. The larger of these two hollows has a diameter of three feet.“

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