Archaeology Notes
Event ID 729045
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
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NX89NE 12 87879 95478.
(NX 8787 9547) Market Cross (NAT)
OS 25" map (1856)
A tall column on a massive base standing on two steps, and surmounted by a bronze flying horse, was erected at Thornhill, about 1714, by the Duke of Queensberry. Described by Hewison (J K Hewison 1912) as "market cross" and by Syme (TSA 1962) as the possibly 17th century village cross, damaged in a storm in 1954, since restored.
J W Small 1900
This is a restored 18th century market cross with a fluted shaft.
Visited by OS (SFS) 5 June 1975