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 ^4 7*A« Ancient Stone Crosses CHAPTER X. A Greca Path of the Moor* Buck! and to the South-east Border — Crazy Well Pool — Piers Gaveston — A Broken Cross — Remains of Cross by the Wayside — Stone Pillar — Fox Tor— Tomb of Childe the Hunter— A Tradition of the Forcsi— A Despoiled Monument — Discovery of a Kistvaen-^Death of the Lord of Plymstock — Fox Tor Newtake and its Crosses — Crosses on Ter Hill — Stannaburrows — The Down Kidge Crosses — Horse Pord~ Horn's Cross— An Old Road — Queen Victoria's Cross at Hex- worthy — Heine Moor — Cross in Holne Churchyard — ^BirthpIace of Charles Kingsley-*-Cross at Hawson — Buckfast Abbey — Base at Ashburton — Cross at Gulwell. Deferring for a time our notice of certain interesting objects in the town on the Tavy to which our joumeyings have brought us» we shall for the present again turn our attention to the south quarter of the forest. The road from Marchants Cross to Sampford Spiney was crossed at Dousland by another, which, as I have already mentioned, my discovery of several prostrate crosses had revealed to me. Being marked by such a number of these objects, and pointing as it does to Buckland on the western side of the moor and to Buckfast on the south-east, it certainly seems probable that it was used by the monks of those houses, though the Abbots' Way was a much more direct route between them. It would, however, have been necessary to the first-named house if they desired to reach the part of the moor lying to the eastward of Dartmeet, to which a branch of it went, and they may have had occasion to do so- But however this may be, it is plain that a track ran over the forest from Walkhampton Common to Holne Moor, and the common lands of Widecombe. This we shall now endeavour to trace, and shall commence our journey at Dousland. Proceeding up the Princetown road we diverge across the common on the right, and follow the lane to Lowery, a farm on the verge of the waste. Here the scenery is of a remarkably romantic character, and is not surpassed in any part of the borderland of Dartmoor. There is a grand group of tors.