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Summary

Six mile hill cross. On high roadside bank at crossroads about 2km east of dunsford on the exeter road. Type c. The weathered shaft of a cross of rectangular section with chamfered angles. Both arms have been knocked off. The head above the arms expands upwards, but the shaft itself is straight. Chudleigh says that 'a kind of dish stone is lying close to this cross', and illustrates what looks like a shallow rectangular trough. Seen by major tyler in 1926, but bank is now very overgrown, and trough is not visible (masson-phillips). Vis=2/5/1953(os) the position of this cross makes it classifiable as a wayside cross (os). Vis=5/10/1981 (os). Now overgrown with scrub but as described above (os). Vis=cross shaft. Medieval. Granite. Weathered cross shaft freestanding on the high bank at the crossroads (doe 1986).

Location

Protected Status

• Listed Building (II) 1215569: CROSS SHAFT ON ROADSIDE BANK TO TWO CROSSES CROSSROADS

Other References/Statuses

• Old DCC SMR Ref: SX88NW/4
• Old Listed Building Ref (II)

Monument Type(s) and Dates

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

Full description

DOE 1986, Untitled Source (Report - Survey). SDV294525.

Six mile hill cross. On high roadside bank at crossroads about 2km east of dunsford on the exeter road. Type c. The weathered shaft of a cross of rectangular section with chamfered angles. Both arms have been knocked off. The head above the arms expands upwards, but the shaft itself is straight. Chudleigh says that 'a kind of dish stone is lying close to this cross', and illustrates what looks like a shallow rectangular trough. Seen by major tyler in 1926, but bank is now very overgrown, and trough is not visible (masson-phillips). Vis=2/5/1953(os) the position of this cross makes it classifiable as a wayside cross (os). Vis=5/10/1981 (os). Now overgrown with scrub but as described above (os). Vis=cross shaft. Medieval. Granite. Weathered cross shaft freestanding on the high bank at the crossroads (doe 1986).

Untitled Source (Migrated Record). SDV294526.

Masson phillips, e. N. /tda/70(1938)328 pl.34 fig.19/the ancient stone crosses of devon, part 2.

Untitled Source (Migrated Record). SDV294527.

Osa=sx88nw1/photo.

Untitled Source (Migrated Record). SDV294528.

Doe/hhr:dunsford/(4/9/1986)51.

Watson, A., 2007-2017?, Devon Crosses, 420, (Vol 4), sketch (Un-published). SDV360833.

Six Mile Hill SX828894
cross shaft stands on top of a roadside hedge, at a crossroads (Two Crosses), about 1.25 miles east of Dunsford, on the Exeter to Moretonhampstead road. Cross shaft stands at the top of a hill, one side named Six Mile Hill, the other side Farrants Hill. A weathered shaft of a cross, rectangular in section with chamfered angles, both arms have been knocked off. The head above the missing arms expands upwards, but the shaft itself is straight.
Cross shaft height 1.17 metres, base 0.30 metres.

Sources / Further Reading

Associated Monuments: none recorded

Associated Finds: none recorded

Associated Events: none recorded

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