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This wayside cross is a modest but significant survivor of medieval Dartmoor. Such crosses once marked routes and boundaries across the moor, serving travelers, pilgrims and local people. Its exact age is uncertain, but the form and setting suggest a medieval origin, when the moor was crossed more regularly and such monuments held practical and spiritual meaning.
Today the cross stands in open moorland near Childe's Tomb, another ancient site. The landscape around it has changed little in centuries, making it one of many heritage markers that pattern Dartmoor's high ground and hint at the busy, inhabited moor of the medieval period.
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