Archaeology Notes

Event ID 699927

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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(NS 3653 2826) Macrae's Monument (NAT)

OS 1:10000 map (1978)

Macrae's Monument: Built in 1748 and rebuilt in 1750 after collapsing, it commemorates James Macrae, a local person who rose to be governor of St George, Madras. He died at Monkton House (Orangefields) in 1744 and is buried in Monkton Churchyard (Memoirs of John Dickie of Loans (b.1715)).

Name Book 1857

NMRS REFERENCE

John Swan, builder (?) 1748-50

(Undated) information in NMRS.

A finely worked memorial of sandstone blocks and columns, some 10m high, with a square ground storey and a mounted obelisk. It is in a neglected condition.

Visited by OS (JRL) 7 November 1980