Archaeology Notes

Event ID 683032

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NO13NE 8 15750 39530

For adjacent tron and jougs (NO 1575 3950), see NO13NE 77.

(NO 1575 3952) An ancient cross, bearing the date 1698, stands in the centre of the village square at Meikleour, with an iron railing round it (T Hunter 1883). Seen by Crawford in 1943 who gives the date as '16(?)2'.

Information from O G S Crawford 17 May 1943.

J W Small 1900

NO 1575 3954 Meikleour Cross is a complex stone pillar surmounted by a cross on a platform of two circular steps and a third step cross-plan, and decorated with stars and crosses; dated 16(9)8 (SDD List 1962).

Revised at 1:2500.

Visited by OS (WDJ) 20 February 1969.