Hawson Cross: a Latin cross 2.18 m high on a triangular road island by Stumpy Oak, with an original head and arms on a mostly modern shaft, restored in 1952 and on the Monks' Path.
A late medieval cross, 1.76 m high with chamfered, splayed arms and pointed stops, set in a square socket stone at a T-junction; it dates from about 1500 and was secured in 1868.
“the country doctor, in hail, rain, snow, or storm, must turn out of a warm bed and ride, often to the dreary waste of Dartmoor, through rough roads and darkness, at the call of humanity,”
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An Iron Age hillfort 66.5 m by 62 m with a rampart up to 9 m wide, outer ditch, and a 29 m medieval longhouse built inside it, above the River Lyd in South Longridge Wood.
Horn's Cross: a socket stone 0.82 m by 0.89 m with a crude modern shaft 1.63 m high made after 1800 and an original head and arms, on Holne Moor.
A stumpy-armed medieval cross, 1.04 m high, at Bovey Cross crossroads, with the letters O, N and M cut for Okehampton, Newton and Moreton; Grade II, also called Stumpy Cross and Horspit Cross.
A medieval wayside cross standing on open moorland south-west of Sampford Spiney, marking an ancient route across Dartmoor.
A cairn made of two partial rings of edge-set stones, 2.8 m and 5 m across, with a 1.6 m slab inside that may be the cover of an intact cist, on the south slope of Sittaford Tor.
A Bronze Age burial cairn on the southern slopes near Archerton, among Dartmoor's scattered prehistoric monuments.
A medieval cross head and short shaft, 1.02 m high, carved with a relief cross on two faces, found elsewhere on the farm and set up at the Moor Gate Farm entrance in 1937; Grade II.
Photograph by Glavind Strachan Photography“Chageford in the dirt--O good Lord!”
Also on Our DartmoorChilde the Hunter — A granite cross marking the burial of a young nobleman who died on Fox Tor Mires, with competing versions of how he got there.
