Meikleour, Mercat Cross
Market Cross (17th Century) (1698)
Site Name Meikleour, Mercat Cross
Classification Market Cross (17th Century) (1698)
Alternative Name(s) Meikleour Cross; Meikleour, The Square
Canmore ID 28550
Site Number NO13NE 8
NGR NO 15750 39530
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/28550
- Council Perth And Kinross
- Parish Caputh
- Former Region Tayside
- Former District Perth And Kinross
- Former County Perthshire
NO13NE 8 15750 39530
For adjacent tron and jougs (NO 1575 3950), see NO13NE 77.
(NO 1575 3952) An ancient cross, bearing the date 1698, stands in the centre of the village square at Meikleour, with an iron railing round it (T Hunter 1883). Seen by Crawford in 1943 who gives the date as '16(?)2'.
Information from O G S Crawford 17 May 1943.
J W Small 1900
NO 1575 3954 Meikleour Cross is a complex stone pillar surmounted by a cross on a platform of two circular steps and a third step cross-plan, and decorated with stars and crosses; dated 16(9)8 (SDD List 1962).
Revised at 1:2500.
Visited by OS (WDJ) 20 February 1969.
Complex stone pillar surmounted by cross on platform of 2 circular steps, 3rd step cross plan. Decorated with stars and crosses. Dated 16(9)8. (Historic Environment Scotland List Entry)
Field Visit (13 August 1942)
This site was included within the RCAHMS Emergency Survey (1942-3), an unpublished rescue project. Site descriptions, organised by county, vary from short notes to lengthy and full descriptions and are available to view online with contemporary sketches and photographs. The original typescripts, manuscripts, notebooks and photographs can also be consulted in the RCAHMS Search Room.
Information from RCAHMS (GFG) 10 December 2014.
