Archaeology Notes

Event ID 686308

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NO33SW 64 31076 30010

(NO 310 300) Site of Market Cross (NR)

OS 25" map (1861)

(NO 3049 2938) Market Cross (Removed from Longforgan) (NAT)

OS 6" map (1959)

The cross was removed from the centre of Longforgan (see OS 25") to its present position about 1790. It is a plain circular pillar about 20ft high, surmounted by a lion. Its date is unknown.

Name Book 1861

The cross is identical to that at Glamis, which dates from the latter part of the 17th century.

Statistical Account (OSA) 1792; J W Small 1900

As described above. The precise original site of the cross could not be established.

Visited by OS (RDL) 16 June 1964

This cross was re-erected in Longforgan Main Street at NO 3108 3000 in 1989.

Information from Historic Scotland May 1993.