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Archaeology Notes
Event ID 691590
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/691590
NO67SE 8 65052 73544
(NO 6504 7355) Cross (NAT).
OS 25" map, (1927)
Fettercairn Market Cross stands on a 5-stepped pedestal. The square shaft is capped by a capital featuring a series of sundials, the initials "EIM" and the date "1670". The popular belief is that this was the old market cross of the town of Kincardine (NO67SE 9), and that it was removed to Fettercairn in 1730, but of this no record exists. Fettercairn was granted a licence to hold markets and erect a cross in 1504, and this was renewed in a grant to the Earl of Middleton in 1670. The probability is that the capital bearing the date 1670 was made for Fettercairn and that the shaft which looks much older, is that of the 1504 cross.
J W Small 1900; A C Cameron 1899.
Market Cross, as described.
See Illustration Card.
Visited by OS (R L) 18 August 1971.
