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JOURNAL OF THE PLYMOUTH INSTITUTION. 
A curious paragraph is to be found written at the end of one of 
the documents describing the perambulation, and is as follows : 
"hit is to be noatid that on the one syde of the crosse abouesaid 
their is graven in the stone crux siwardi ; and on the oth. side is 
graven, roolandi." 
The remains of these words are still partially visible on the 
stone as well as a small incised cross in the centre. To all appear- 
ance, after several visits and close examinations made both by 
friends and myself, on one side the word appears to be Booford, and 
on the other we could only decipher the terminal syllable — ward. 
It is now commonly known as Nun's Cross ; but why so named, 
or why it has lost the name by which it was formerly known, we 
have no evidence to show. 
According to the Handbook of Devon, this cross formed one of 
the boundary marks of Buckland Abbey, and is mentioned as 
Crux Sywardi in the Charter of Isabella de Fortibus. It marked 
the " bonde " between the Royal Forest and the Monks' Moor. 
It is a rough granite structure, rather larger at the top than 
the base, where the shaft is inserted in a pedestal level with the 
ground. 
It was, I believe, for some time thrown down; but when the 
line between the boundary of the forest and the outlying moors 
was re-defined, the cross was re-erected. It has been broken and 
repaired by iron clamps. In the map of the first perambulation it 
is figured as standing upon a pedestal of two steps. 
It is probable, as the monument bears two old inscriptions, that 
the cross was formed out of an old inscribed stone that recorded 
the burial-place of some prehistoric heroes. 
END OF PART I. 
