Merkland Cross, an old monument in Kirkpatrick-Fleming parish, SE Dumfriesshire, 21/8 miles WNW of Kirkpatrick village. It comprises a base or socket 2½ feet high, and a slightly tapering octagonal pillar 9 feet high, and is supposed to commemorate a Master of Maxwell, Warden of the Marches, who, after a victorious skirmish with the Duke of Albany and the Earl of Douglas, was here assassinated in 1484.Ord. Sur., sh. 10, 1864.
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