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Horn's Cross is a stone cross standing on the high moorland of Dartmoor, a scheduled monument from the medieval period. Like many crosses that dot the moor, it probably served as a waymarker for travellers crossing open ground, or as a boundary marker between parishes or lands. The cross is simple in form and weathered by centuries of moorland exposure.
Today the site offers a sense of Dartmoor's long history of human movement and settlement. Visitors walking the moor will find it a quiet waypoint in the landscape, part of a wider network of medieval crosses that still guide people across these high open spaces much as they did centuries ago.
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