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Crailing Cross
Trip No.123 Entry No.2 Date Added: 2nd Apr 2019
Site Type: Ancient Cross
Country: Scotland (Scottish Borders)
Visited: Yes on 31st Mar 2019. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 3 Access 4
Crailing Cross submitted by Anne T on 2nd Apr 2019. The sad remains of the old 'mercat cross' at Crailing. The Canmore record for this cross says: "A local gamekeeper stated that the "cross" has been in its present position for at least 50-60 years but enquiries at Crailing House and the Lothian Estates office produced no knowledge of the 'cross' at all".
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Log Text: Crailing Cross: We’d driven by this cross a couple of times before, but just thought it was a stone bearing the name of the village. This time, I got a closer look, then looked it up on Canmore after we drove past and confirmed it was a medieval ‘mercat’ cross. We stopped on our way back from Kelso to take a few photos. Nothing special, but another to tick off as a visited site.
I was aiming to take a photograph of the cross from the south side of the A698, but the traffic was so fast and frequent, I decided not to risk getting run over.
Crosshall Cross
Trip No.123 Entry No.1 Date Added: 2nd Apr 2019
Site Type: Ancient Cross
Country: Scotland (Scottish Borders)
Visited: Yes on 31st Mar 2019. My rating: Condition 3 Ambience 4 Access 4
Crosshall Cross submitted by Anne T on 2nd Apr 2019. The western side of the cross, as seen from inside the field. This face has "has a Latin cross with pointed ends to its arms, surmounted by shield", although the carvings are worn and difficult to see, with the cross easier to see than the shield.
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Log Text: Crosshall Cross: Details of this cross had printed out along with some details of Kelso Abbey, which we visited beforehand. Having found it was not far from Kelso, we decided to take the short drive to see it, and it was well worth it.
This was a little further out of Kelso than we originally thought, but it was a pleasant drive. Whilst the cross was 'protected' by an old iron railing, with the remains of an old signpost next to it, the fence was a taut wire/barbed wire fence with no 'give' to squeeze through, so we walked down the lane, away from the farm to the gate into the field. The ‘gate’ into the field with the cross was right at the cross roads, so we climbed over and walked back down the field of pasture to take a closer look.
The low, very bright, sun, made it difficult to photograph its eastern side with its man and its hound (we thought it was a lamb), but it was well worth seeing this cross, with its Latin crosses, shields, incised man with his hound, and a Crusader sword.