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 ^2 The Ancient Stone Crosses CHAPTER III. By the Southern Border Heights. TJgborough Moor — Bagga's Bush— Old Guide-post — Sandowl Cross — Hookmoor Cross — Ugborough Church — Bishop Prideaux — Owley — Spurreli*s Cross — Harford — Broomhill to Ivybridge. The line of stone posts which we noticed in our progress from Three Barrows to Western Whitaburrow serves to mark the boundary between the moors of Brent and Ug- borough. The latter common extends from the forest to the foot of the Eastern Beacon, near Wrangaton, thrusting its southern extremity into the cultivated country. Not far from the foot of this is situated the village of Ugborough, and thither we shall now proceed, afterwards entering again upon the commons, and crossing them to the parish of Harford. We shall leave Brent by the old Plymouth coach-road, and on crossing Brent Bridge shall find that it takes a course to the right of the present highway. About a quarter of a mile from the bridge is a spot called Bagga's Bush, near which is a stone worthy of a passing notice. It is an old guide-post, standing close by the roadside, small in size and barely thirty inches in height. On its face is the letter M denoting the direction of Modbury, the road, or lane, leading to that place, diverging a short distance further on. Its eastern and western sides bear respectively the letters E and P, standing for Exeter and Plymouth. The letters are cut in relief, two of them being much worn. Following the Modbury lane we shall soon reach a bridge over the Glaze, a stream serving as a boundary between the parishes of Brent and Ugborough, just beyond which, near a wayside inn called the Carew Arms, we cross the modem road to Plymouth. The lane ascends the hill, and will lead us direct to the spot where we shall find the object that will next claim our attention. This is a stone set up in the centre of a small open space, whence several roads diverge, named Sandowl Cross, but at