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Summary

A probable socket stone from a cross lies at Little Modbury, about half a mile south of Modbury. It stands near a pump, square in shape with chamfered angles and hollowed out to form a trough.

Location

Protected Status: none recorded

Other References/Statuses

• Old DCC SMR Ref: SX65SE/20/1

Monument Type(s) and Dates

• CROSS (Unknown date)
• TROUGH (Unknown date)

Full description

Untitled Source (Migrated Record). SDV164197.

Little modbury. At the uppermost farm here, there stands near the pump a trough, square in shape with chamfered angles. Resembles the hollowed out socket-stone of a cross.

Untitled Source (Migrated Record). SDV164198.

Masson phillips, e. /tda/86(1954)180/supplementary notes on the ancient stone crosses of devon, (fourth paper).

Untitled Source (Migrated Record). SDV164199.

Osa=sx65se12.

Watson, A., 2007-2017?, Devon Crosses, 275, (Vol 3), sketch (Un-published). SDV360833.

Little Modbury SX656506
A probable socket stone lies at the uppermost farm at Little Modbury, about half a mile south of Modbury. It stands near a pump, square in shape with chamfered angles and hollowed out to form a trough.
Socket stone 0.96 by 0.96 metres by 0.33 metres high. Inside 0.68 by 0.71 metres.

Sources / Further Reading

Associated Monuments: none recorded

Associated Finds: none recorded

Associated Events: none recorded

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