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The Socket of a wayside cross at the crossroads near Six Bells Farm is a scheduled ancient monument located in Gloucestershire. The socket represents the base of a medieval wayside cross, a common feature of the English landscape that served both practical and spiritual functions at important junctions and meeting places. Such crosses typically dated from the medieval period and would have originally supported a stone or wooden shaft, now lost. The survival of the socket itself provides archaeological evidence of religious and social infrastructure in the medieval parish landscape.
Socket of a wayside cross at the crossroads near Six Bells Farm is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1014825. View the official record →
The Socket of a wayside cross at the crossroads near Six Bells Farm is a scheduled ancient monument located in Gloucestershire.
Socket of a wayside cross at the crossroads near Six Bells Farm is a Scheduled Ancient Monument, legally protected by Historic England (NHLE) — the body responsible for designating and safeguarding heritage sites in England. The official designation reference is 1014825.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Medieval ringwork castle and associated Civil War earthwork defence (3.9 km), Little Dean camp (4.5 km), Welshbury hillfort and associated earthworks (4.7 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of Socket of a wayside cross at the crossroads near Six Bells Farm's history, each drawn from the record and mapped to the exact spot:
Every location is different. Not every section appears for every place, only what the historical record actually holds turns up in a report.
Socket of a wayside cross at the crossroads near Six Bells Farm stands on Triassic Rocks (Undifferentiated), bedrock that formed in the Triassic. The rock here is mudstone, siltstone and sandstone.