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Summary

Remains of a socket stone for a medieval cross used as a trough at Black Hall

Location

Protected Status: none recorded

Other References/Statuses

• Old DCC SMR Ref: SX75NW/7/1
• Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division: SX75NW2

Monument Type(s) and Dates

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

Full description

Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division, 1951, SX75NW2 (Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division Card). SDV340737.

Remains of the socket stone of a stone cross a few metres to the east of the 17th century gateway to the northeast of Black Hall. The octagonal granite socket stone for a stone cross is partly set into the base of the north side of the garden wall. The stone has been hollowed out to make a trough. The stone is 0.25 metres high with a hole 0.9 metres long by 0.7 metres wide. Other details: Scale diagram.

Masson Phillips, E. N., 1954, Supplementary Notes on the Ancient Stone Crosses of Devon (Fourth Paper), 182 (Article in Serial). SDV15725.

At Black Hall near Avonwick. Type B or C cross . An octagonal socket stone, the top of which has been hollowed out to serve as a trough, is partly built into a wall on the north east side of Black Hall.

Cotswold Archaeology, 2001, Fishacre to Lyneham Natural Gas Pipeline: Archaeological Fieldwalking and Field Reconnaissance Survey: Preliminary Summary, Map 6 (Report - Survey). SDV340217.

Cotswold Archaeology, 2001, Fishacre to Lyneham Natural Gas Pipeline: Cultural Heritage Assessment: Volume 1:Text, 19 & 27 (Report - Assessment). SDV340215.

Other details: Sites 65 & 79.

Cotswold Archaeology, 2001, Fishacre to Lyneham Natural Gas Pipeline: Cultural Heritage Assessment: Volume 2: Constraints Maps (Report - Assessment). SDV340216.

Other details: Map 6 Sites 65 & 79.

Watson, A., 2007-2017?, Devon Crosses, 34, (Vol 1), sketch (Un-published). SDV360833.

Black Hall SX713577
A socket stone is partly built into a wall on the north-east side of Black Hall, Avonwick. Octagonal; the top has been hollowed out to form a trough.
Cross measurements: Socket stone 1.17 by 0.8 metres, by 0.2 metres high. Inside measures 0.9 by 0.66 metres.

Ordnance Survey, 2008, MasterMap (Cartographic). SDV340009.

'Cross (remains of)' shown on modern mapping.

Sources / Further Reading

Associated Monuments

Associated Finds: none recorded

Associated Events

• EDV4375 - Fishacre to Lyneham Pipeline Assessment
• EDV4391 - Fishacre to Lyneham Fieldwalking Survey

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