File:Clackmannan sign about stone, cross and tollbooth.jpg

From Wikimedia Commons, the free media repository
Jump to navigation Jump to search

Original file ‎(1,536 × 2,048 pixels, file size: 696 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg)

Captions

Captions

Add a one-line explanation of what this file represents

Summary

[edit]
Description
English: Sign in Clackmannan, at the top of Main Street, describing the historical Stone, Cross and Tolbooth. The sign reads:

The Stone

The stone or clack, originally placed at the foot of Lookabootye Brae, was sacred to the pre-Christian deity Mannan and is an unique relic of pagan times. It was raised on the large shaft in 1833.

The Cross

The shaft of the cross, engraved with the Bruce arms, dates from the seventeenth century when Sir Henry Bruce was sheriff. The ball finial is not original. The steps were renewed in 1949. The lower part of the shaft has been worn by prisoners' chains.

The Tolbooth

Built in 1592 at a cost of £284 the Tolbooth, comprising court room, prison, jailer's house and instruments of punishment, extended some forty feet east of the surviving belfry tower. Previously the sheriff court was held on the steps of the cross. Sir Laurence Dundas gave the bell in 1765 and Mr. Francis Horne gave the clock in 1865.
Date
Source Own work
Author Clacksnapper
Camera location56° 06′ 26.51″ N, 3° 45′ 08.32″ W Kartographer map based on OpenStreetMap.View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMapinfo

Licensing

[edit]
I, the copyright holder of this work, hereby publish it under the following licenses:
w:en:Creative Commons
attribution share alike
This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license.
You are free:
  • to share – to copy, distribute and transmit the work
  • to remix – to adapt the work
Under the following conditions:
  • attribution – You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use.
  • share alike – If you remix, transform, or build upon the material, you must distribute your contributions under the same or compatible license as the original.
GNU head Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license is included in the section entitled GNU Free Documentation License.
You may select the license of your choice.

File history

Click on a date/time to view the file as it appeared at that time.

Date/TimeThumbnailDimensionsUserComment
current08:25, 12 September 2010Thumbnail for version as of 08:25, 12 September 20101,536 × 2,048 (696 KB)Clacksnapper (talk | contribs){{Information |Description={{en|1=Sign in Clackmannan, at the top of Main Street, describing the historical Stone, Cross and Tolbooth. The sign reads: THE STONE THE STONE OR CLACK, ORIGINALLY PLACED AT THE FOOT OF LOOKABOOTYE BRAE, WAS SACRED TO THE PR

You cannot overwrite this file.

There are no pages that use this file.

Metadata

This file contains additional information such as Exif metadata which may have been added by the digital camera, scanner, or software program used to create or digitize it. If the file has been modified from its original state, some details such as the timestamp may not fully reflect those of the original file. The timestamp is only as accurate as the clock in the camera, and it may be completely wrong.

Retrieved from "https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=File:Clackmannan_sign_about_stone,_cross_and_tollbooth.jpg&oldid=861611233"