Tour Scotland travel video of a Sunny Winter road trip drive, on narrow Scottish roads, with bagpipes and drums music, on visit to the village of Kinrossie, Perthshire. A small linear village in Strathmore, Perth and Kinross, Kinrossie lies in the parish of Collace, 6 miles north east of Perth. It retains several reed thatched cottages and a market cross dated 1686. Kinrossie mercat cross, now enclosed by railings, stands beside the public road at the centre of the village. It consists of a stepped plinth, a shaft and moulded head, in the form of a St Andrew's cross with each arm defined by a bowtell moulding) and is surmounted by a ball finial. The date of 1686 is no longer visible. A mercat cross is the Scots name for the market cross found frequently in Scottish cities, towns and villages where historically the right to hold a regular market or fair was granted by the monarch, a bishop or a baron. It therefore served a secular purpose as a symbol of authority, and was an indication of a burgh's relative prosperity. Historically, the term dates from the period before 1707 when Scotland was an independent kingdom
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