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Archaeology Notes

Event ID 691975

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/691975

NO56SE 25 5971 6019.

The first notice of a market cross at Brechin occurs in 1364. Ruinous in 1734, it was subsequently rebuilt, but was ultimately pulled down in 1767. Its site was marked in the roadway opposite the Town Hall until 1837.

D D Black 1839; D B Thoms 1977; R Gourlay and A Turner 1977.

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