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- Grid references: Eastern SX 60021 82981, western SX 59987 83042
- Distance apart: About 30 to 40 m
- Date: Most likely twentieth century
- Cut Hill: 603 m, named from Cut Lane, an old drovers' track
Two crosses are cut on flat rocks flush with the ground on the north side of Cut Hill, between the rain gauge and Cut Lane. Dartmoor Explorations considers them most likely modern, with no real significance, and notes that a letterbox stamp of the 1990s alluded to them. Dartefacts lists them as Cut Hill (E) Cross and Cut Hill (W) Cross among the many small features on the hill, and Legendary Dartmoor names them as the East Crosses and the West Crosses among the rock features used by letterboxers.
Cut Hill is remote high moor, a long walk in from the nearest road, and has a stone row found in 2004.
Sources: Dartmoor Explorations, Cut Hill | Dartefacts, Cut Hill | Wikipedia, Cut Hill | Dartmoor Crosses, the same cross with photographs.
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