Minor monument · Medieval
Clackmannan Mercat Cross
Clackmannanshire
Clackmannan’s early market cross stands beside a town court building and the Clackmannan Stone, a rare civic group tied to the town’s origins.
- Near Alloa
- Easy path
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Crosses, wells & waymarks of Britain & Ireland
Mercat crosses, holy wells, boundary stones and the smaller marks that shaped daily life.
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Minor monument · Medieval
Dovecot, Balbegno Castle
Aberdeenshire
This surviving seventeenth-century pigeon house preserves Balbegno Castle’s food infrastructure, from its crowstepped roof to a projecting masonry…
- Near Fettercairn
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Minor monument · Medieval
Dovecot, Barnyards Of Findlater
Aberdeenshire
Findlater’s beehive pigeon house retains about 700 nesting boxes, making an otherwise modest estate building an unusually legible record of how the…
- Near Sandend
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Minor monument · Medieval
Dovecot, Creich Castle
Fife
Creich’s 1723 pigeon house is an unusually formal castle lean-to, where twin chambers, rat-proofing and dormer entries make estate food production…
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Minor monument · Medieval
Dovecot, Denbie
Dumfries and Galloway
Denbie’s dated 1775 pigeon house turns estate food supply into architectural display, combining an octagonal lantern, J C datestone and nesting box…
- Near Denbie
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Minor monument · Medieval
Dovecot, Fetteresso Castle
Aberdeenshire
The sixteenth-century beehive pigeon house outlasts Fetteresso Castle’s dismantling, its three rat lines preserving the working estate landscape be…
- Near Stonehaven
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Minor monument · Medieval
Dovecot, Kilravock Castle
Highland
Kilravock’s pigeon house, built to keep birds for winter meat, makes the estate’s long-running economy tangible within a building altered from medi…
- Near Cawdor
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Minor monument · Medieval
Dovecot, Kirkgate, Chirnside
Scottish Borders
Three hundred and eighty-two nesting boxes in sixteen circular rows, inside a dovecot: a purpose-built pigeon house: that once served the home of D…
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Minor monument · Medieval
Dovecot, Mains Of Edzell
Angus
Edzell’s square pigeon house, with diagonally opposed turrets and a later ruined extension, makes the working architecture and changing needs of th…
- Near Edzell
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Minor monument · Medieval
Dovecot, Wormistone House
Fife
Wormiston’s early-seventeenth-century pigeon house preserves a more ambitious estate structure than most Fife doocots, with twin chambers, a vaulte…
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Minor monument · Medieval
Gate Piers And Twin Dovecots, East Lodge, Balcaskie House
Fife
Balcaskie’s paired dovecots turn an estate entrance into architecture, combining 1714–45 gate piers, bird houses and later Lorimer ironwork in one…
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Minor monument · Medieval
Market Cross And Medieval Village, East Preston
Dumfries and Galloway
A plain sandstone cross marks the lost village of Preston, whose population fell from a settled community to one inhabitant by 1844.
- Near Newton Stewart
- Easy path
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Minor monument · Medieval
Market Cross, Bank Street, Inverkeithing
Fife
Inverkeithing’s market cross, the stone cross marking a burgh’s right to hold a market, carries centuries of civic self-image: royal heraldry and a…
- Easy path
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Minor monument · Medieval
Market Cross, Church Street, Macduff
Aberdeenshire
Macduff’s 1783 cross reassembled older fragments into a royal-burgh statement, its rider and inscriptions preserving the Earl of Fife’s civic ambit…
- Easy path
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Minor monument · Medieval
Market Cross, Main Street, Longforgan
Perth and Kinross
Removed to the grounds of Castle Huntly at the end of the eighteenth century, and not put back on Main Street until 1989.
- Near Longforgan
- Easy path
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Minor monument · Medieval
Market Cross, Market Square, Melrose
Scottish Borders
Melrose’s 1645 market cross combines a restored seventeenth-century shaft with a nineteenth-century base and a weathered unicorn finial carrying th…
- Easy path
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Minor monument · Medieval
Market Cross, Old Rayne
Aberdeenshire
A granite market cross on five circular steps preserves Old Rayne’s status as a burgh of barony created in 1492.
- Easy path
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Minor monument · Medieval
Market Cross, Saltoun Square, Fraserburgh
Aberdeenshire
A 1736 granite market cross in Fraserburgh retains its date, oval shaft and coat of arms in the centre of Saltoun Square.
- Easy path
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Minor monument · Medieval
Market Cross, The Cross, Culross
Fife
Culross’s market cross visibly joins a 1588 trading privilege to Edwardian civic revival, its original stepped base supporting a 1902 shaft, arms a…
- Easy path
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Minor monument · Medieval
Market Cross, The Cross, Doune
Stirling
The capital carries the arms of Moray and Campbell, two sundials and a lion: a good deal of information packed onto the top of one shaft.
- Easy path
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Minor monument · Medieval
Market Cross, The Square, Fettercairn
Aberdeenshire
A 1670 market cross moved from Kincardine to Fettercairn in 1730 carries an ell measure, sundials and the arms of Scotland and the Earl of Middleton.
- Easy path
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Minor monument · Medieval
Mercat Cross, Kettins
Perth and Kinross
A stump of medieval shaft, two feet three inches high, with a font from before the Reformation set on top of it: two separate objects made into one…
- Near Kettins
- Easy path
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Minor monument · Medieval
Ogston Market Cross, Michael Kirk, Gordonstoun
Moray
An incised hammer mark and a hole probably cut for the jougs: the iron collar in which offenders were chained: survive on a cross now standing in a…
- Near Elgin
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Minor monument · Medieval
Perth Mercat Cross, Fingask Castle
Perth and Kinross
A cross assembled out of loose window tracery, standing beside a font carried here from Kinnaird: both given nineteenth-century dates that the ston…
- Near Perth
- Easy path
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Minor monument · Medieval
The Old Market Cross, Greenlaw
Scottish Borders
Said to have been put up on the Market Green in 1609. It is now set against the west side of the church, off the green entirely.
- Near Greenlaw
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Sacred place · Medieval
Dupath Well
Cornwall
Dupath Well is a nearly intact late-medieval holy well house where a granite chapel-like structure protects a spring once associated with healing.
- Near Penzance
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Minor monument · Medieval
Giggleswick Market Cross
North Yorkshire
Giggleswick Market Cross preserves the village’s late-medieval market status and, through later relocation and competing local traditions, captures…
- Easy path
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Minor monument · Medieval
Hale Duck Decoy
Cheshire
One of England's few surviving duck decoys still holding its original form: five pipes radiating from a central pond in a pentagon shape used to tr…
- Near Chester
- Easy path
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Sacred place · Medieval
St. Plegmund's well
Cheshire
St Plegmund's Well is a scheduled Cheshire holy well whose documentary history, stone-lined structure and continuing well-dressing tradition preser…
- Near Mickle Trafford
- Easy path
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Minor monument · Prehistoric
Whiteleaf Cross
Buckinghamshire
A vast chalk cross cut into a Buckinghamshire hillside whose age and purpose have never been established: one of England's few hill figures with no…
- Some walking
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Minor monument · Prehistoric
Woodhey Cross
Cheshire
Woodhey Cross is a rare surviving late-medieval stepped cross that remains in its original Cheshire roadside position, preserving a small but subst…
- Near Woodhey Green
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Minor monument · Medieval
Dovecot, Ayton Castle
Scottish Borders
A dated panel above the door reads 1745, or possibly 1743: inserted, it seems, to mark the completion of repairs to the 653 nesting boxes inside.
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Minor monument · Medieval
Dovecot, Carloonan, Inveraray Castle Estate
Argyll and Bute
The Carloonan dovecot: a stone house for pigeons, kept for winter meat: survives within the designed estate landscape of Inveraray Castle.
- Near Inveraray
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Minor monument · Medieval
Dovecot, Megginch Castle
Perth and Kinross
The weathervane on top is a model of the East Indiaman General Elliot, which Captain Robert Drummond commanded from her launch in 1783: at the age…
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Minor monument · Medieval
Market Cross, Castle Street, Aberdeen
Aberdeen City
Aberdeen’s 1686 market cross combines royal and civic carving with a gilt unicorn, preserving the burgh’s public trading and ceremonial centre thro…
- Near Aberdeen
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Minor monument · Medieval
Market Cross, Church Street, Cromarty
Highland
Cromarty’s market cross, the stone cross marking a burgh’s right to hold a market, preserves a rare civic document in stone: its 1578 shaft and Geo…
- Near Cromarty
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Minor monument · Medieval
Market Cross, Drumlanrig Street, Thornhill
Dumfries and Galloway
Thornhill’s 1714 Pegasus-topped cross was planned with the village road, making its column a surviving civic centre despite relocation and later re…
- Near Thornhill
- Easy path
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Minor monument · Medieval
Market Cross, High Street, Airth
Falkirk
Airth Mercat Cross is a 1697 market marker in the High Street, protected through Category A listing after its former scheduled-monument designation…
- Easy path
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Minor monument · Medieval
Market Cross, Prestwick
South Ayrshire
The cross carries its own admission that it is not original: the inscription reads 'Rebuilt 1777'.
- Near Prestwick
- Easy path
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Minor monument · Medieval
Market Cross, The Square, Cumnock
East Ayrshire
Cumnock’s 1703 market cross combines burgh ceremony, a working sundial and Crighton heraldry, with repairs showing its civic role endured for three…
- Near Cumnock
- Easy path
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Minor monument · Medieval
Village And Market Cross, Rossie
Perth and Kinross
Two lions and two unicorns share the top of this cross, holding up a ball finial between them.
- Easy path
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