Antique fair find

We have been lucky enough to find this wonderful cross at an antique fair or ‘broconte’ as  they call them here.

We had uncovered the stone plinth base when weeding and were told originally a stone cross had stood upon it. The cross we found is metal but as ‘Les Faures’ is said to derive from the Occitane language and means ‘forge’ and this cross has forge tools worked into one side with grapes and wine accessories into the other we thought it absolutely perfect. The estate used to provide iron for the locality as iron ore abounds and of course also had vines as part of their self-sufficiency.