Location
The Market Cross of Bervie stands in a street off King Street
Inverbervie, Stonehaven
OS Map Reference
NO 832 727
Description
Like many post reformation Scottish mercat crosses not actually a cross at all. The chief purpose of these structures was to show the town or burgh had a right to hold a market in the place indicated rather than a religious one. It is a simple polygonal sectioned column surmounted by a cone-shaped ball on similarly polygonal stepping on a polygonal dais.
Related Information
'This is one of the examples in which the stepping of the Cross rises from a built pedestal or die...and not immediately off the ground. The shaft is surmounted by a cone-shaped ball, and bears the date 1737. J W Small 1900 from RCAHMS
Era
1700s
Information Source
RCAHMS
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Photographer
- Martin Sim
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