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Cross S of Shaden Plantation
Devon
This is a scheduled monument cross, likely medieval in origin, positioned in the moorland landscape south of Shaden Plantation. Such crosses were commonly erected along routes crossing Dartmoor, serving as waymarkers and gathering points in an open, featureless terrain where navigation was otherwise difficult.
Today the cross remains as a simple stone structure in the moor, a quiet record of medieval life and travel on Dartmoor. Its survival speaks to the continuity of this landscape and the routes that have threaded through it for centuries.
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