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Market cross
Structure marking a market square / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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.
See also: Mercat cross
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