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Field Visit
Date April 1912
Event ID 1088268
Category Recording
Type Field Visit
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1088268
67. Market Cross, Cockburnspath.
This cross (fig. 29 [SC 1172968]) stands in the centre of the village square and consists of an irregularly stepped base of three tiers measuring some 11 feet 3 inches square at the ground level and diminishing to a socket stone 2 feet 10 inches square and 10 inches in height supporting a cross-shaft splayed at the angles and measuring about 13 inches square and 10 feet 4 inches in height. The east and west faces of the cross-head, which develop to a width of about 15 inches, have a thistle of conventional design carved in relief on each side; while the other two surfaces to the north and south are decorated with roses treated in the same conventional style. The stepped base was greatly weathered and decayed prior to 1908, when it was restored and put in a good state of repair.
See Small's Crosses, pl. 28 (illus.); Antiquities, iv. p. 91 (illus.)
RCAHMS 1915, visited April 1912.
OS Map: Ber., i. SW.
