Archaeology Notes

Event ID 868409

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NJ90NW 23 94496 06380 Originally at 9440 0633

(NJ 9449 0637) Cross (NR) (Market)

OS 25" map, (1926).

Not to be confused with NJ90NW 6.

A fine speciment of a large market cross, originally erected at NJ 9440 0633 in 1686, thoroughly repaired in 1821 and removed to the present site in 1827. The built understructure, hexagonal in plan and composed of a series of semi-circular arches supports a parapet, decorated with arms and royal portrait medallions. Within the parapet rises a carved column surmounted by the unicorn with the shield.

J W Small 1900; D MacGibbon and T Ross 1892.

Visited by OS (JLD) 22 August 1952.

(Additional bibliography and newspaper references cited).

NMRS, MS/712/83.

[Former index no. 106]. Descheduled.

Information from Historic Scotland: Certificate of Exclusion from Schedule dated 16 February 2009.