Base Of Cross At Junction With B3151

The base of a wayside cross, likely dating from the 14th century, is located at the junction with the B3151 in Compton Dundon. It is constructed from Ham stone and features two 20th-century circular stone steps, measuring 2 metres and 1.5 metres in diameter and both 300 millimetres high, which replaced four earlier steps. A fragment of a circular top step remains, approximately 1 metre in diameter and 175 millimetres high. Above this is the socket, which measures about 700 millimetres square and is 250 millimetres high, with deeply broached corners. Only about 300 millimetres of the shaft survives, as the rest was destroyed "by some people in a drunken frolic" prior to 1877, according to Pooley's "Old Crosses of Somerset" published in that year.