Mercat Cross in Cockburnspath
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Mercat Cross in Cockburnspath
Image: © Jennifer Petrie Taken: 11 Feb 2020
This cross was erected in 1503 by King James IV of Scotland in celebration of his marriage to Princess Margaret Tudor to whom he presented the lands of Cockburnspath as a dowry. The princess was the sister of King Henry VIII of England and this union of the Scots Thistle and the Tudor Rose was to mark the start of a new and lasting peace only shattered 10 year later by the Battle of Flodden in 1513.
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Image Location
Latitude
55.932337
Longitude
-2.363621