THE OLD GIRTH CROSS

In 1573 this site appears on a map as an ornamental shaft elevated on a flight of steps though later, it was from here that proclamations and executions were made;

In 1600 the young and beautiful Lady Warriston was beheaded by guillotine, for conspiring to murder her abusive husband.

Today the Cross is demarcated by a radiating circle of cobbles in the middle of the street.