156 INSCRIBED STONES AND ANCIENT CROSSES OF DEVON. 
ture of the simplest type, and resembles the moorland crosses of the 
earliest dates. 
On the four sides below the cross are cut the letters H. L. T. 0., 
which refer to boundaries of Hatherleigh, Lydford, Tavistock, and 
Okehampton. On the western face of the stone, that on which 
the letter U H" is engraven, the remains of an almost illegible 
inscription, graven in three lines, traversing the perpendicular 
direction of the stone, are still to be distinguished. The very slight 
extent by which the arms project, being only about an inch 
beyond the widest part of the stone, and the oblique direction at 
which the sides incline inwards to the base of the arms, are 
strongly suggestive that this cross was executed out of an old 
inscribed monument. 
In the village of Sourton, near the church, still exists the 
pedestal on which a cross once stood, but of which the inhabitants 
appear to have no recollection. 
Lying on the ground, and built into the wall of a neighbouring 
house, are several (I counted eleven in all) small stone pillars, 
that may have formed part of some structure over the cross. 
