Volume 7: South West England

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Current Display: Culbone 1, Somerset Forward button Back button
Overview
Present Location
Evidence for Discovery
Church Dedication
Present Condition
Description

Sandstone block with incised cross with ring and stem, standing on Culbone Hill, Exmoor. It was discovered and re-erected in 1940. Such simple monuments could be assigned to an early date, to the high medieval or even post-medieval period.

Discussion

Appendix B item (stones wrongly associated with pre-Conquest period).

Date
References
Vowles 1940; Grinsell 1970, 106, pl. on 126; Quinnell 1981, 96; Eardley-Wilmot 1983, 33–4; Mould 1983, 67–9; Fowler 1988, 9–10
Endnotes
None

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