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Summary

No longer extant, a socket stone was recorded in 1938 as lying in the yard of a shop (a butchers) in New Street, Chulmleigh. The shop is now an estate agents, unfortunately there is no socket stone in the shops yard at present (2009).

Location

Protected Status: none recorded

Other References/Statuses

• Old DCC SMR Ref: SS61SE/3

Monument Type(s) and Dates

• CROSS (Medieval - 1066 AD to 1539 AD (Between))

Full description

Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division, Untitled Source (Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division Card). SDV24.

Cross in yard of shop in new street. Type b or c. Apparently a socket- stone, square at the base and octagonal above, with the top surface hollowed out in a wide circle to form a trough. Vis=17/9/1973 (os). Square based stone has enlarged socket with a drain hole on one side. It now rests in the field at the rear of mortimers shop.

Untitled Source (Migrated Record). SDV69281.

Masson phillips, e. /tda/70(1938)309/the ancient stone crosses of devon pt.2.

Untitled Source (Migrated Record). SDV69282.

Osa=ss61se/13/photo.

Watson, A., 2007-2017?, Devon Crosses, 318, (Vol 3), missing (Un-published). SDV360833.

New Street SS686142 (missing)
A socket stone was recorded in 1938 as lying in the yard of a shop (a butchers) in New Street, Chulmleigh. A socket stone, square at the base and octagonal above, with the top surface hollowed out in a wide circle to form a trough. A suggestion was made in 1938 that the socket stone be placed in the churchyard for safekeeping.
The shop is now an estate agents, unfortunately there is no socket stone in the shops yard at present (2009).

Sources / Further Reading

Associated Monuments: none recorded

Associated Finds: none recorded

Associated Events: none recorded

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