31 MARCH 1928, Page 18

The Merest " Cross" of the Scots was commonly not

a cross at all, but a slender tapering shaft of stone mounted on steps or some -sort of platform. It was the place whence the " voice of Scotland's law was sent in glorious trumpet-clang," where certain .judicial writs were executed, and which sewed• the community as a tallying centre. So says Dr. Black in (f'he Salts Mercak" Cross" (Hodge and Co., 2s. ed.), a scholarly little monograph.

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