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Airth, High Street, Market Cross

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Market Cross (Period Unassigned), Sundial (Period Unassigned)

Site Name Airth, High Street, Market Cross

Classification Market Cross (Period Unassigned), Sundial (Period Unassigned)

Alternative Name(s) Mercat Cross

Canmore ID 46864

Site Number NS88NE 8

NGR NS 89905 87534

Datum OSGB36 - NGR

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/46864

Ordnance Survey licence number AC0000807262. All rights reserved.
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Digital copy of view of Mercat Cross with MacLean's Buildings behind from SW.
Digital copy of view of Mercat Cross with MacLean's Buildings behind from SW.Digital copy of view of Miss Gourlay's House, McLeans property and Mercat Cross from SW.Airth, High Street, Market Cross, NS88NE 8, Ordnance Survey index card, RectoView from SW.View from SW.Detail of cross head.View of Mercat Cross with MacLean's Buildings behind from SW.Airth, High Street, Market Cross, NS88NE 8, Ordnance Survey index card, RectoView from S.General view of Turnpike House, Callander's buildings, Mercat Cross from NW.View of Callander's Buildings and Mercat Cross from NE.View of Callander's Buildings and Mercat Cross from E.Drawing of the view from the SE of the Market Cross at Airth.View from S.View from SW.Detail of cross head.General view of View Villa, Callander's Buildings, Mercat Cross from SE.Detail of cross head.Detail of cross head.View of Mercat Cross, Elphinstone Inn and site of MacLean's Buildings from SW.General view of Turnpike House, Callander's buildings, Mercat Cross from NW.General view of Turnpike House, Elphinstone Inn and Mercat Cross from W.View of the market cross with sundial at Airth.Detail of cross head.Detail of cross head.Drawing of the view from the SE of the Market Cross at Airth.Airth, High Street, Market Cross, NS88NE 8, Ordnance Survey index card, RectoView from S.View of Mercat Cross, View Villa and site of MacLean's Buildings from S.

Administrative Areas

  • Council Falkirk
  • Parish Airth
  • Former Region Central
  • Former District Falkirk
  • Former County Stirlingshire

Archaeology Notes

NS88NE 8 89905 87534

(NS 8990 8753) Cross (NR)

OS 6" map (1967)

The Mercat Cross stands at the NW end of Airth High Street. It consists of a stepped octagonal pedestal, an octagonal shaft with a splayed base, and a square head with a finial apparently representing an acorn. Its total height is 7'2". The SW and SE faces of the head ber shield-shaped sundials, the latter bearing the date 1697, and there are heraldic devices on the NE and NW faces, the latter also having the initials CE on the pediment. They stand for Charles, 9th Lord Elphinstone, who set up the cross.

RCAHMS 1963, visited 1955

As described.

Visited by OS (BS) 30 January 1974

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Architecture Notes

NS88NE 8 89905 87534

NMRS REFERENCE

1 Newspaper cutting - missing at time of upgrade (17.6.1999)

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