Drummond Cross

Picking up on yesterday's theme, where I almost fell over a bit of street art in Perth which I had unaccountably never noticed before, today's blip comes from the tiny Crieff Museum which in 12 years of living in the town I had somehow omitted to ever visit until today.

Whereupon I discovered three possible blips of which this is one mainly because it is a cross and this is still Lent.

From the info available, they think it dates from somewhere between 1400 and 1600 and it stood as the Mercat Cross in Crieff apparently although there's no indication of when it was last in situ.

However, it does have a Rob Roy connection, but one which is quintessentially Scottish. Apparently, in 1714, in direct defiance of the authorities at the Michaelmas Tryst, the bold Rob and thirty of his men deliberately and publicly er, stood around the foot of the Cross, drinking.

Way to go Rob.