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Summary

Vis=-/-/1985 (pamment). Apparently a piece of carved granite stone had been seen some 46 years previously in the side wall of an extension of the main house at pitt farm. On removal of the plaster it turned out that it was part of a medieval cross dating from the 14th - 15th centuries. It is a type c classification (pamment).

Location

Protected Status: none recorded

Other References/Statuses

• Old DCC SMR Ref: SX89SE/21/1

Monument Type(s) and Dates

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

Full description

MASSON PHILLIPS, 1987, Untitled Source (Migrated Record). SDV295140.

52cm long, rectangular in section at base, with rounded corner spurs, and octagonal above. Lying in horizontal position (masson phillips, 1987).

Untitled Source (Migrated Record). SDV295141.

Pamment, j. /parish survey of whitestone and oldridge(st. Thomas)/(1986) 122-123.

Untitled Source (Migrated Record). SDV295142.

Doe/hhr:whitestone/(4/9/1986)99.

Untitled Source (Migrated Record). SDV295143.

Masson-phillips, e. N. /tda/116(1984)135-154/supplementary notes on the ancient stone crosses of devon.

Untitled Source (Migrated Record). SDV295144.

Masson phillips, e. N. /tda/119(1987)249-50/supplementary notes on the ancient stone crosses of devon(eighth paper)/fig 6.

Pamment, J., Untitled Source (Migrated Record). SDV39456.

Vis=-/-/1985 (pamment). Apparently a piece of carved granite stone had been seen some 46 years previously in the side wall of an extension of the main house at pitt farm. On removal of the plaster it turned out that it was part of a medieval cross dating from the 14th - 15th centuries. It is a type c classification (pamment).

Watson, A., 2007-2017?, Devon Crosses, 350, (Vol 3), sketch, photographs x 2 (Un-published). SDV360833.

Pitt Farm SX870945
A fragment of a cross shaft is built into the north-west corner of Pitt farmhouse, Whitestone, near Exeter. The cross shaft is rectangular is section at the base, octagonal above, with rounded corner stops. The fragment was found at the farm in the 1980s.
Cross shaft length 0.48 metres, width 0.35 by 0.30 metres. Chamfer of 0.10 metres.
Colour photographs (x 2) included with report.

Sources / Further Reading

Associated Monuments: none recorded

Associated Finds: none recorded

Associated Events: none recorded

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