Historic England's scheduling record (list entry 1008929) describes a well-preserved granite socket stone for a wayside cross, set in the turf on the west side of a public road a short way south of Greenwell Girt. The granite is fairly fine-grained. The top of the stone is neatly octagonal with a smooth weathered surface, while the sides are much rougher. On the chamfered north corner of the top edge is a tiny slot. The stone is 1.02 metres by 1 metre at most, with 0.33 metres showing, and in the middle of its top is a square socket 0.28 metres by 0.25 metres and 0.14 metres deep, with straight sides, which does not go right through the stone. It has been moved but cannot be far from where it began, and would once have held a cross marking a medieval route. It lies in the parish of Meavy, about 1.6 km south of Meavy.
Sources: Historic England list entry 1008929, which cites Haynes, 'Lost Tracks on Greenwell Down' (Devon and Cornwall Notes and Queries, vol 69, 1981), pages 27 to 29, and Masson Phillips, 'The Ancient Stone Crosses of Devon, Part 1' (Devonshire Association Transactions, vol 69, 1936 to 1937), pages 312 to 313.
Period: Bronze Age
Status: Scheduled monument (Historic England list entry 1008929)
Grid reference: SX 5424 6563 (approximate, from the listing's coordinates)
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