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List of names as written Various modes of spelling Authorities for spelling Situation Description remarks
STONE CROSS Stone Cross (Pedestal of)
Stone Cross (Pedestal of)
Revd [Reverend] Duns
Mr. P. Crawford Hiderston Hills
005 [Situation] 32 chains north of Silvermine

This is evidently the remains of One of the Ancient wayside Crosses, the pedestal of which now Only remains - It was formerly on the road side for devotional purposes but was removed into the field adjoining and the shaft carried to Cathlaw House for building purposes, it is a square block much time worn and partly sloped from the socket around which seeem to be traces of Carving, but whether or not Cannot be now ascertained - the boundary wall formerly formed the division between the Knights of St John in Torphichen - & the monks of St Sepulchre in Linlithgow Parish

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