Archaeology Notes

Event ID 711114

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NT08NE 17 0904 8746.

(NT 0904 8746) Site of Pillory (NR)

OS 1:1056 map, Fifeshire, Dunfermline, (1854)

The tron is shown in the same position as the pillory on the map of 16th century Dunfermline (J M Webster 1953).

The tron is first mentioned in the Burgh Records in April 1549 (E Beveridge 1917).

The tron well stood at the SW end of the High Street, a small iron hook and platform on the left being for the pillory.

P Chalmers 1844-59; E Beveridge 1917; J M Webster 1953.

AD 1364 Tron and customs: After the receipt of the charter by David II granting to Dunfermline Abbey the right to have a harbour at Wester Rosyth or Grange of Gellald, it is probable that a public tron would be erected.

E Henderson 1879.

No further information.

Visited by OS (D W R) 18 February 1974.