Old Photograph Mercat Cross Elgin Scotland

Old photograph of the Mercat Cross in Elgin, Moray, Scotland. The Mercat Cross of Elgin, commonly known as the Muckle Cross, built in 1650, stood, until around 1792, on a site just east of St. Giles Kirk. The structure removed at that date seems to have been erected in the reign of King Charles I, and consisted of a hexagonal platform or raised balcony 12 feet high, from the centre of which rose a tall shaft surmounted by the Scottish Lion.



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