Archaeology Notes

Event ID 713659

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NT27SE 12 2548 7340.

Former Place of Public Execution (NR)

OS 1/500 plan (1895) and OS 1/1250 plan.

(NT 2548 7340) A cross (formed by bricks) in the road surface at this spot bears the inscription :- 'On this spot many martyrs and covenanters died for the Protestant Faith'. (17th century).

Visited by OS (J D) 25 December 1953.