Dealul Crucii or Crucișorul is located southeast of the monastery, immediately across the Putnei stream, being actually marked with a monumental stone cross, but without any kind of inscriptions.
From its top, as the chronicler himself says, "it is a long way (...) to the monastery", but he also gives us a detail that makes the flight of the arrow on such a long trajectory truthful, if we were to believe the legend. It is about Stephen's bow, about which it is said that the voivode "was shooting it with a whirlwind", which means that it was, in fact, a crossbow, the beat of which, in general, is much greater than that of an ordinary bow .
The powerful weapon, along with a jasper cup, would have remained, after the lord's death, "as a memorial to the holy monastery", but both later disappeared. The bow was stolen, during the time of Constantin Cantemir (1685 – 1693), by the Cossacks and the Leši, during a common robbery campaign, and the jasper cup was broken...