Aberdeen, Flesh Cross
Market Cross (Period Unassigned)
Site Name Aberdeen, Flesh Cross
Classification Market Cross (Period Unassigned)
Canmore ID 20153
Site Number NJ90NW 32
NGR NJ 9441 0634
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/20153
- Council Aberdeen, City Of
- Parish Aberdeen
- Former Region Grampian
- Former District City Of Aberdeen
- Former County Aberdeenshire
NJ90NW 32 9441 0634.
(NJ 9441 0634) Cross (NR) Site of
OS 1:500 map, Aberdeenshire, 2nd ed., (1901).
The site of the Flesh Cross, so named because the Fleshmarket was nearby. Here the towns-people were wont 'to publish royal proclamations and decrees of the council, and to perform the public acts customary on court days' (Macfarlane 1907).
Erected c.1545, the Flesh Cross was replaced by the Market Cross (NJ90NW 23) in 1686. (Fraser 1908)
(This has now been moved to another site.)
Name Book 1866; W Kennedy 1818; W Macfarlane 1907; G M Fraser 1908.
This market cross was replaced in 1686 and its site now lies in a redeveloped part of the city.
Visited by RCAHMS (JRS, ATW), 26 February 1997.
