The 903 AD Saxon reference referred to a boundary mark at Whiteleaf called Weland's stock (or pole), suggesting a long thin shape cut into the hill. The age old stories like to think of the cross being cut to hide a phallic shape in the past centuries. There is possibly a 14th century tile in the village church with a version of the cross marked on it. It is known as fact that the triangular base is much bigger in modern times than it was in the past, and indeed the not too distant past, as the base is almost double the size it was 50 years ago.
Google about for Whiteleaf Cross, and all sorts of history etc are to be discovered. But not a mention of a pyramid to be found.
It seems likely that the cross is a marker on the scarp to guide people to the Gap through the Chiltern Hills, with its companion Bledlow Cross on the hillside on the southern side of the gap. These two white marks would have been very useful to guide people to the gap through the hills, and thus onwards towards the Thames.
Perhaps we should give the Cross its own sitepage, which I havnt done as its ancientness cannot be known for sure, and tehre are other websites for hillfigures
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