Archaeology Notes

Event ID 718848

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NT53SW 12 5381 3417.

(NT 53813417) High Cross (NR) (Supposed site of)

OS 25" map (1859)

The supposed site of a high cross which marked the spot where pilgrims from the west first glimpsed the spires of Melrose Abbey (NT53SW 30). The cross, which stood on an eminence, had disappeared by 1743 but the district still retains the name, Highcross.

Name Book 1859; J Bower 1862; A Milne 1743

No further information concerning this cross was found.

Visited by OS (WDJ) 30 January 1961