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Killboy Cross is a wayside cross located in Cornwall, England, and represents a class of religious monuments that were commonly erected in medieval parishes. The cross dates to the medieval period, likely the fifteenth or sixteenth century, and would have served as a waymarker and focus for devotion along local routes. The monument survives as a stone cross shaft, characteristic of Cornish wayside crosses that marked significant paths through the landscape. Such crosses functioned both as practical navigational aids and as expressions of parish piety during the late medieval and early modern periods.
Wayside cross called Killboy Cross is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1004650. View the official record →
Killboy Cross is a wayside cross located in Cornwall, England, and represents a class of religious monuments that were commonly erected in medieval parishes. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1004650.
Wayside cross called Killboy Cross 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 1004650.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Small multivallate hillfort on Bury Down, 530m north-east of South Park (3.7 km), Linear boundary called the Giant's Hedge (5.1 km), Lerryn Bridge (5.7 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of Wayside cross called Killboy Cross'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.
Wayside cross called Killboy Cross stands on Middle Devonian (Undifferentiated), bedrock that formed in the Middle Devonian. The rock here is mudstone, siltstone and sandstone.