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Mercat cross, the Glossary

A mercat cross is the Scots name for the market cross found frequently in Scottish cities, towns and villages where historically the right to hold a regular market or fair was granted by the monarch, a bishop or a baron.^[1]

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Monuments and memorials in Scotland

Aberdeen

Aberdeen (Aiberdeen,; Obar Dheathain; Aberdonia) is a city in North East Scotland, and is the third most populous Scottish city.

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Aberdeen's Mercat Cross

Aberdeen's Mercat Cross was built in 1686 by John Montgomery, an Aberdeen architect.

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Aberlady

Aberlady (Aiberlady, Gaelic: Obar Lobhaite) is a coastal village in the Scottish council area of East Lothian.

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Abernethy, Perth and Kinross

Abernethy is a village and former burgh in the Perth and Kinross council area and historic county of Perthshire, in the east central Lowlands of Scotland.

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Acts of Union 1707

The Acts of Union refer to two Acts of Parliament, one by the Parliament of England in 1706, the other by the Parliament of Scotland in 1707.

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Airth

Airth (An Àird) is a Royal Burgh, village, former trading port and civil parish in Falkirk, Scotland.

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Alloa

Alloa (Received Pronunciation; Scottish pronunciation /ˈaloʊa/; Alamhagh, possibly meaning "rock plain") is a town in Clackmannanshire in the Central Lowlands of Scotland.

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Alyth

Alyth (Ailt) is a town in Perth and Kinross, Scotland, northeast of Blairgowrie and about northwest of Dundee.

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Anstruther

Anstruther (Ainster or Enster; Ànsruthair) is a coastal town in Fife, Scotland, situated on the north-shore of the Firth of Forth and south-southeast of St Andrews.

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Australia

Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands.

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Banff, Aberdeenshire

Banff (Banbh) is a town in the Banff and Buchan area of Aberdeenshire, Scotland.

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Beauly

Beauly (A' Mhanachainn) is a village in Scotland's Highland area, on the River Beauly, west of Inverness by the Far North railway line.

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Biggar, South Lanarkshire

Biggar (Bigear) is a town, parish and former burgh in South Lanarkshire, Scotland, in the Southern Uplands near the River Clyde on the A702.

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Bishop

A bishop is an ordained member of the clergy who is entrusted with a position of authority and oversight in a religious institution.

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Bowden, Scottish Borders

Bowden is a village in the Roxburghshire area of the Scottish Borders, situated south of Melrose, west of Newtown St Boswells and tucked in the shadow of the Eildon Hills, Scotland.

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Brechin

Brechin (Breichin) is a town and former royal burgh in Angus, Scotland.

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Burgh

A burgh is an autonomous municipal corporation in Scotland, usually a city, town, or toun in Scots.

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Burgh of barony

A burgh of barony was a type of Scottish town (burgh).

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Burntisland

Burntisland (Bruntisland) is a former Royal burgh and parish in Fife, Scotland, on the northern shore of the Firth of Forth.

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Callander

Callander (Calasraid) is a small town in the council area of Stirling, Scotland, situated on the River Teith.

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Campbeltown

Campbeltown (Ceann Loch Chille Chiarain or Ceann Locha) is a town and former royal burgh in Argyll and Bute, Scotland.

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Canada

Canada is a country in North America.

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Capital (architecture)

In architecture, the capital or chapiter forms the topmost member of a column (or a pilaster).

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Carnwath

Carnwath (Gaelic: A' Chathair Nuadh; English: "New Fort") is a moorland village on the southern edge of the Pentland Hills of South Lanarkshire, Scotland.

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Clackmannan

Clackmannan (Clach Mhanainn, perhaps meaning "Stone of Manau"), is a small town and civil parish set in the Central Lowlands of Scotland.

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Cockburnspath

Cockburnspath is a village in Berwickshire in the Scottish Borders.

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Coldingham

Coldingham is a village and parish in Berwickshire in the Scottish Borders.

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Common riding

A common riding is an equestrian tradition mainly in the Scottish Borders in Scotland.

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Covenanters

Covenanters were members of a 17th-century Scottish religious and political movement, who claimed to have a "Covenant", or agreement with God.

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Crail

Crail (Cathair Aile) is a former royal burgh, parish and community council area (Royal Burgh of Crail and District) in the East Neuk of Fife, Scotland.

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Crieff

Crieff (Craoibh, meaning "tree") is a Scottish market town in Perth and Kinross on the A85 road between Perth and Crianlarich, and the A822 between Greenloaning and Aberfeldy.

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Cruciform

Cruciform is a term for physical manifestations resembling a common cross or Christian cross.

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Cullen, Moray

Cullen (Inbhir Cuilinn) is a village and former royal burgh in Moray but historically in Banffshire, Scotland, on the North Sea coast east of Elgin.

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Culross

Culross (/ˈkurəs/) (Scottish Gaelic: Cuileann Ros, 'holly point or promontory') is a village and former royal burgh, and parish, in Fife, Scotland.

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Cumnock

Cumnock (Scottish Gaelic: Cumnag) is a town and former civil parish located in East Ayrshire, Scotland.

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Cupar

Cupar (Cùbar) is a town, former royal burgh and parish in Fife, Scotland.

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Dalmeny

Dalmeny is a village and civil parish in Scotland.

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Dingwall

Dingwall (Dingwal, Inbhir Pheofharain) is a town and a royal burgh in the Highland council area of Scotland.

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Dornoch

Dornoch (Dòrnach; Dornach) is a town, seaside resort, parish and former royal burgh in the county of Sutherland in the Highlands of Scotland.

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Doune

Doune (from Scottish Gaelic: An Dùn, meaning 'the fort') is a burgh within Perthshire.

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Duffus

Duffus (Dubhais) is a village and parish in Moray, Scotland.

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Dumfries

Dumfries (Dumfries; from Dùn Phris) is a market town and former royal burgh in Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland, near the mouth of the River Nith on the Solway Firth, from the Anglo-Scottish border.

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Dunbar

Dunbar is a town on the North Sea coast in East Lothian in the south-east of Scotland, approximately east of Edinburgh and from the English border north of Berwick-upon-Tweed.

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Dundee

Dundee (Dundee; Dùn Dè or Dùn Dèagh) is the fourth-largest city in Scotland.

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Dunfermline

Dunfermline (Dunfaurlin, Dùn Phàrlain) is a city, parish, former Royal burgh in Fife, Scotland, from the northern shore of the Firth of Forth.

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Dunkeld

Dunkeld (Dunkell, from Dùn Chailleann, "fort of the Caledonians") is a town in Perth and Kinross, Scotland.

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Duns, Scottish Borders

Duns is a town in the Scottish Borders, Scotland.

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Edinburgh

Edinburgh (Dùn Èideann) is the capital city of Scotland and one of its 32 council areas.

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Edward VII

Edward VII (Albert Edward; 9 November 1841 – 6 May 1910) was King of the United Kingdom and the British Dominions, and Emperor of India, from 22 January 1901 until his death in 1910.

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Egg-and-dart

Egg-and-dart, also known as egg-and-tongue, egg-and-anchor, or egg-and-star, is an ornamental device adorning the fundamental quarter-round, convex ovolo profile of moulding, consisting of alternating details on the face of the ovolo—typically an egg-shaped object alternating with a V-shaped element (e.g., an arrow, anchor, or dart).

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Elgin, Moray

Elgin (Ailgin; Eilginn) is a historic town (former cathedral city) and formerly a royal burgh in Moray, Scotland.

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Errol, Perth and Kinross

Errol is a village in Perth and Kinross, Scotland, about halfway between Dundee and Perth.

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Fair

A fair (archaic: faire or fayre) is a gathering of people for a variety of entertainment or commercial activities.

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Falkirk

Falkirk (Fawkirk; An Eaglais Bhreac) is a town in the Central Lowlands of Scotland, historically within the county of Stirlingshire.

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Fettercairn

Fettercairn (Fothair Chàrdain) is a small village in Aberdeenshire, Scotland, northwest of Laurencekirk in Aberdeenshire on the B966 from Edzell.

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Feudalism

Feudalism, also known as the feudal system, was a combination of legal, economic, military, cultural, and political customs that flourished in medieval Europe from the 9th to 15th centuries.

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Fife

Fife (Fìobha,; Fife) is a council area, historic county, registration county and lieutenancy area of Scotland.

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Finial

A finial (from finis, end) or hip-knob is an element marking the top or end of some object, often formed to be a decorative feature.

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Forfar

Forfar (Farfar, Baile Fharfair) is the county town of Angus, Scotland and the administrative centre for Angus Council, with a new multi-million pound office complex located on the outskirts of the town.

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Forres

Forres (Farrais) is a town and former royal burgh in the north of Scotland on the Moray coast, approximately northeast of Inverness and west of Elgin.

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Fortrose

Fortrose is a town and former royal burgh in Highland, Scotland, United Kingdom.

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Fraserburgh

Fraserburgh (Baile nam Frisealach), locally known as the Broch, is a town in Aberdeenshire, Scotland, with a population recorded in the 2011 Census as 13,100.

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Galashiels

Galashiels (Gallae, An Geal Àth) is a town in the Scottish Borders with a population of around 12,600.

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General election

A general election is an electoral process to choose most or all members of an elected body, typically a legislature.

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Gifford, East Lothian

Gifford is a village in the parish of Yester in East Lothian, Scotland.

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Glamis

Glamis is a small village in Angus, Scotland, located south of Kirriemuir and southwest of Forfar.

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Glasgow

Glasgow is the most populous city in Scotland, located on the banks of the River Clyde in west central Scotland.

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Guild

A guild is an association of artisans and merchants who oversee the practice of their craft/trade in a particular territory.

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Haddington, East Lothian

The Royal Burgh of Haddington (Haidintoun, Baile Adainn) is a town in East Lothian, Scotland.

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Hawick

Hawick (Haaick; Hamhaig) is a town in the Scottish Borders council area and historic county of Roxburghshire in the east Southern Uplands of Scotland.

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Houston, Renfrewshire

Houston (Houstoun), is a village in the council area of Renfrewshire and the larger historic county of the same name in the west central Lowlands of Scotland.

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Iconoclasm

Iconoclasm (from Greek: label + label)From lit.

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Inveraray

Inveraray (or; Inbhir Aora meaning "mouth of the Aray") is a town in Argyll and Bute, Scotland.

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Inverbervie

Inverbervie (from Inbhir Biorbhaidh or Biorbhaigh, "mouth of the River Bervie") is a small town on the north-east coast of Scotland, south of Stonehaven.

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Inverkeithing

Inverkeithing (Inbhir Chèitinn) is a coastal town, parish and historic royal burgh in Fife, Scotland, on the Firth of Forth, 9.5 miles northwest of Edinburgh city centre and 4 miles south of Dunfermline.

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Inverness

Inverness (Innerness; from the Inbhir Nis, meaning "Mouth of the River Ness") is a city in the Scottish Highlands, having been granted city status in 2000.

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Irvine, North Ayrshire

Irvine (Irvin; Irbhinn) is a town and former royal burgh on the coast of the Firth of Clyde in North Ayrshire, Scotland.

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Jedburgh

Jedburgh (Deadard; Jeddart or Jethart) is a town and former royal burgh in the Scottish Borders and the traditional county town of the historic county of Roxburghshire.

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Jougs

The jougs, juggs, or joggs (joug, from Latin iugum, a yoke) is a metal collar formerly used as an instrument of punishment in Scotland, the Netherlands and other countries.

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Kilmarnock

Kilmarnock (Kilmaurnock; Cill Mheàrnaig) is a town and former burgh in East Ayrshire situated in southwest Scotland.

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Kilmaurs

Kilmaurs is a village in East Ayrshire, Scotland which lies just outside of the largest settlement in East Ayrshire, Kilmarnock.

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Kilwinning

Kilwinning (Kilwinnin; Cill D’Fhinnein) is a town in North Ayrshire, Scotland.

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Kincardine, Fife

Kincardine (Cinn Chàrdainn) or Kincardine-on-Forth is a town on the north shore of the Firth of Forth, in Fife, Scotland.

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Kingdom of Scotland

The Kingdom of Scotland was a sovereign state in northwest Europe, traditionally said to have been founded in 843. Its territories expanded and shrank, but it came to occupy the northern third of the island of Great Britain, sharing a land border to the south with the Kingdom of England. During the Middle Ages, Scotland engaged in intermittent conflict with England, most prominently the Wars of Scottish Independence, which saw the Scots assert their independence from the English.

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Kinross

Kinross (Ceann Rois) is a burgh in Perth and Kinross, Scotland, around south of Perth and around northwest of Edinburgh.

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Kinrossie

Kinrossie is a linear village in the Perth and Kinross area of Scotland.

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Kirkcudbright

Kirkcudbright (Kirkcoubrie; Cille Chùithbeirt) is a town, parish and a royal burgh from 1455 in Kirkcudbrightshire, of which it is traditionally the county town, within Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland.

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Kirkwall

Kirkwall (Kirkwa, Kirkwaa, or Kirkwal; Kirkavå) is the largest town in Orkney, an archipelago to the north of mainland Scotland.

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Langholm

Langholm, also known colloquially as the "Muckle Toon", is a burgh in Dumfries and Galloway, southern Scotland.

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Lauder

The former Royal Burgh of Lauder (Labhdar) is a town in the Scottish Borders in the historic county of Berwickshire.

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Leaf

A leaf (leaves) is a principal appendage of the stem of a vascular plant, usually borne laterally aboveground and specialized for photosynthesis.

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Lerwick

Lerwick (or; Leirvik; Larvik) is the main town and port of the Shetland archipelago, Scotland.

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Leven, Fife

Leven (Pictish; Inbhir Lìobhann) is a seaside town in Fife, set in the east Central Lowlands of Scotland.

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Linlithgow

Linlithgow (Lithgae; Gleann Iucha) is a town in West Lothian, Scotland.

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Linlithgow Palace

The ruins of Linlithgow Palace are located in the town of Linlithgow, West Lothian, Scotland, west of Edinburgh.

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Lochmaben

Lochmaben (Gaelic: Loch Mhabain) is a small town and civil parish in Scotland, and site of a castle.

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Longforgan

Longforgan is a village and parish in the Carse of Gowrie, in Perth and Kinross, Scotland.

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Lossiemouth

Lossiemouth (Inbhir Losaidh) is a town in Moray, Scotland.

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Luss

Luss (Lus, 'herb') is a village in Argyll and Bute, Scotland, on the west bank of Loch Lomond.

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Macduff, Aberdeenshire

Macduff (An Dùn) is a town in the Banff and Buchan area of Aberdeenshire, Scotland.

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Market cross

A market cross, or in Scots, a mercat cross, is a structure used to mark a market square in market towns, where historically the right to hold a regular market or fair was granted by the monarch, a bishop or a baron. Mercat cross and market cross are Crosses by function.

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Maybole

Maybole is a town and former burgh of barony and police burgh in South Ayrshire, Scotland.

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Meikleour

Meikleour is a village in Perth and Kinross, Scotland.

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Melrose, Scottish Borders

Melrose (Maolros, "bald moor") is a town and civil parish in the Scottish Borders, historically in Roxburghshire.

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Mercat Cross, Edinburgh

The Mercat Cross of Edinburgh is a market cross, which stands in Parliament Square next to St Giles' Cathedral, facing the High Street in the Old Town of Edinburgh. Mercat cross and Mercat Cross, Edinburgh are architecture in Scotland.

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Moffat

Moffat (Mofad) is a burgh and parish in Dumfriesshire, now part of the Dumfries and Galloway local authority area in Scotland.

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Monarch

A monarch is a head of stateWebster's II New College Dictionary.

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Moniaive

Moniaive ('monny-IVE'; Am Moine Naomh, "The Holy Moor") is a village in the Parish of Glencairn, in Dumfries and Galloway, southwest Scotland.

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Montrose, Angus

Montrose (Mon Rois) is a town and former royal burgh in Angus, Scotland.

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Musselburgh

Musselburgh (Musselburrae; Baile nam Feusgan) is the largest settlement in East Lothian, Scotland, on the coast of the Firth of Forth, east of Edinburgh city centre.

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Nairn

Nairn (Inbhir Narann) is a town and former royal burgh in the Highland council area of Scotland.

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New World

The term "New World" is used to describe the majority of lands of Earth's Western Hemisphere, particularly the Americas.

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Newton Stewart

Newton Stewart (Gd: Baile Ùr nan Stiùbhartach) is a former burgh town in the historical county of Wigtownshire in Dumfries and Galloway, southwest Scotland.

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North Berwick

North Berwick (Bearaig a Tuath) is a seaside town and former royal burgh in East Lothian, Scotland.

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Oban

Oban (An t-Òban meaning The Little Bay) is a resort town within the Argyll and Bute council area of Scotland.

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Old Aberdeen

Old Aberdeen is part of Aberdeen in Scotland.

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Old Rayne

Old Rayne is a small village in Aberdeenshire, Scotland, approximately north west of Inverurie and south east of Huntly along the A96 road.

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Oldhamstocks

Oldhamstocks or Aldhamstocks ("old dwelling place") is a civil parish and small village in the east of East Lothian, Scotland, adjacent to the Scottish Borders and overlooking the North Sea.

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Ormiston

Ormiston is a village in East Lothian, Scotland, near Tranent, Humbie, Pencaitland and Cranston, located on the north bank of the River Tyne at an elevation of about.

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Peebles

Peebles (Na Pùballan) is a town in the Scottish Borders, Scotland.

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Pencaitland

Pencaitland is a village in East Lothian, Scotland, about south-east of Edinburgh, south-west of Haddington, and east of Ormiston.

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Perth

Perth (Boorloo) is the capital city of Western Australia.

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Perth, Scotland

Perth (Scottish English:; Peairt) is a centrally located Scottish city, on the banks of the River Tay.

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Pittenweem

Pittenweem is a fishing village and civil parish in Fife, on the east coast of Scotland.

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Portree

Portree (Port Rìgh) is the capital and largest town of the Isle of Skye in the Inner Hebrides of Scotland.

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Prestonpans

Prestonpans (Baile an t-Sagairt., Scots: The Pans) is a small mining town, situated approximately eight miles east of Edinburgh, Scotland, in the council area of East Lothian.

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Prestwick

Prestwick (Preastabhaig) is a town in South Ayrshire on the west coast of Ayrshire in Scotland about southwest of Glasgow.

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Renfrew

Renfrew (Renfrew; Rinn Friù) is a town west of Glasgow in the west central Lowlands of Scotland.

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Royal burgh

A royal burgh was a type of Scottish burgh which had been founded by, or subsequently granted, a royal charter.

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Rutherglen

Rutherglen (Ruglen, An Ruadh-Ghleann) is a town in South Lanarkshire, Scotland, immediately south-east of the city of Glasgow, from its centre and directly south of the River Clyde.

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Ruthwell Cross

The Ruthwell Cross is a stone Anglo-Saxon cross probably dating from the 8th century, when the village of Ruthwell, now in Scotland, was part of the Anglo-Saxon Kingdom of Northumbria.

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Sanctuary

A sanctuary, in its original meaning, is a sacred place, such as a shrine.

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Sanquhar

Sanquhar (Sanchar, Seanchair) is a village on the River Nith in Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland, north of Thornhill and west of Moffat.

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Scold's bridle

A scold's bridle, sometimes called a witch's bridle, a gossip's bridle, a brank's bridle, or simply branks, was an instrument of punishment, as a form of public humiliation.

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Scone Palace

Scone Palace is a Category A-listed historic house near the village of Scone and the city of Perth, Scotland.

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Scone, Scotland

Scone (Sgàin; Scone) is a town in Perth and Kinross, Scotland.

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Scotland

Scotland (Scots: Scotland; Scottish Gaelic: Alba) is a country that is part of the United Kingdom.

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Scots language

ScotsThe endonym for Scots is Scots.

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Scottish baronial architecture

Scottish baronial or Scots baronial is an architectural style of 19th-century Gothic Revival which revived the forms and ornaments of historical architecture of Scotland in the Late Middle Ages and the Early Modern Period. Mercat cross and Scottish baronial architecture are architecture in Scotland.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercat_cross

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