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Field Visit
Date 12 June 1928
Event ID 1098931
Category Recording
Type Field Visit
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1098931
Market Cross, Inverkeithing.
The market cross, dating from the 16th century, stands in Townhall Street. It was moved from the north end of the High Street to this position in 1799 (1). The shaft is octagonal in section and rises from a graduated base. The capital is moulded and is enriched with roses. On the sides are four shields bearing arms as under(cf. NT18SW 3): (1) and (2) A lion rampant within a tressure flory-counter-flory, the Royal arms; (3) A heart, on a chief three stars, for Douglas; (4) Parted per pale: dexter, the Royal arms; sinister, five bars wavy, apparently for Robert III and his queen Annabella Drummond. Above the capital is a cubical sundial, on which sits a unicorn supporting a shield bearing a saltire. The unicorn was placed on the cross in 1688, and the sundial is of the same time.
HISTORICAL NOTE. The special connection of Robert III and Annabella Drummond with Inverkeithing (cf. NT18SW 3), has not been satisfactorily explained. A charter of 6 January 1399 in possession of the burgh (2) provides for the payment to that queen of an annual revenue of 100 shillings due to the Crown, but she had revenues also from many other burghs. Their eldest son, David, Duke of Rothesay, married in 1400 a daughter of the third Earl of Douglas.
RCAHMS 1933, visited 12 June 1928.
(1) Stephen's Inverkeithing and Rosyth, pp. 23-4. (2) Ibid., p. 338.
