Cross base in Brow Wood
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Cross base in Brow Wood
Image: © Mick Borroff Taken: 7 Jan 2021
An inscribed gritstone block which appears to be a post-medieval wayside cross base with a deep square socket. Local folklore has its use as a plague stone and it could have been repurposed. Its inscription has a cross and below TH16910, but this appears to be upside down relative to its possible use as a cross base. The "0" appears in a smaller size suggesting a date of 1691 post-dating the plague. It is not recorded in this location on any old OS maps.
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Image Location
Latitude
54.023724
Longitude
-1.733213