Foxton Cross

Historic England's scheduling record (list entry 1002559) describes a wayside cross on the lower northern slopes of Crane Hill, overlooking Foxtor Mires. It is a single dressed granite shaft, rectangular in section and up to 1.6 metres high, with the top broken off at a slant and an incised Latin cross on its north face. It is set in a mound of closely packed stones. It lies in the parish of Dartmoor Forest, about 1.9 km north of Calveslake Tor.

The cross stands on a reave that was reused as a boundary in the medieval period, and it marks the outer edge of the newtake of Nun's Cross Farm. It may also have been a bound mark for the nearby tinworks. It is believed to have begun as a waymarker for the Abbots' Way and to have been moved to where it stands. When it was first described in 1900, a second incised triangular stone, thought to be the cross head, lay nearby, but it has since disappeared.

Sources: Historic England list entry 1002559 (updated 10 November 2015), which cites Butler, Dartmoor Atlas of Antiquities, vol 4 (1993), page 222, and PastScape 441585.

• Period: Medieval
• Status: Scheduled monument (Historic England list entry 1002559)
• Grid reference: SX 6119 6946 (approximate, from the listing's coordinates)