Archaeology Notes
Event ID 691374
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
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NO88NE 4 87666 85523
(NO 8766 8551) Cross (NR)
(NO 8765 8551) Cross (NR) (Site of)
OS 1/500 plan, (1864)
Stonehaven Market Cross is a simple stone shaft, square at the base but splayed above, resting on an octagonal base. In 1887 the head of the cross was replaced by the present one - a cross bearing the Marischal Arms. The cross was moved to its present site some years before 1864.
Name Book 1864; F C Eeles 1897; J W Small 1900.
The Market Cross is as described above.
Surveyed at 1/2500.
Visited by OS (R D) 28 July 1965.