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Archaeology Notes
Event ID 685451
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/685451
NO20SE 12 2960 0220
(NO 2960 0220) Stob Cross (NR)
OS 6" map (1938)
Stob Cross, Markinch: A mutilated rectangular slab 7'5 1/2" high, 2' broad at the base and 6" thick, with a plain cross carved on the E and W faces. In 1790, when the cross was in danger of falling, the Earl of Leven had the position faced up with masonry.
The monument now stands on a modern two-stepped base.
RCAHMS 1933, visited 1925
