Croix monumentale du Mont-Dahin, 16th-century wayside cross in Amont-et-Effreney, France.

The Croix monumentale du Mont-Dahin is a stone wayside cross in Amont-et-Effreney, Haute-Saône. A slender, weathered grey shaft rises from a rough base patched with green moss, topped by a carved cross head with protruding sculpted elements. Four saints stand on flower-decorated corbels flanking the column beneath a baldachin capital: two bishops in mitres, plus Saint Peter with his key and Saint Paul with his sword. Behind the crucifix is a worn Virgin and Child.

The Croix monumentale du Mont-Dahin is a wayside cross in Amont-et-Effreney, Haute-Saône. Its style suggests a 16th-century date, though no document fixes the year. It was classified as a monument historique in 1986, the protection covering the carved shaft and cross head.

Four saints stand on flower-decorated corbels flanking the column shaft beneath a baldachin capital: two bishops identified by their mitres, and Saints Peter and Paul, recognised by a key and a sword. Behind the crucifix a badly worn Virgin and Child is carved, so the cross carries six relief figures in all.

The cross stands in the hamlet of Mont-Dahin, within the commune of Amont-et-Effreney in Haute-Saône. It is reached by road from the village; the carved faces are best examined in low, raking light, when the reliefs of the saints and the chapter canopy stand out from the weathered stone.

Four saints stand on flower-decorated corbels along the shaft beneath a baldachin capital: two bishops identified by their mitres, and Saints Peter and Paul recognised by a key and a sword. The Virgin and Child, badly worn, is carved behind the crucifix.