Mercat Cross
麦卡特十字

Mercat Cross
麦卡特十字

Markets have been held in St Andrews since at least the late twelfth century. In the 1190s it was decided that St Andrews' market-place should be on "the land of Lambinus" - an open space roughly where the wide section of Market Street is today. As in other Scottish towns, the site of the market was denoted by a stone pillar known as the mercat (or market) cross. The mercat cross was an important meeting place for the residents of St Andrews and public announcements were often made there. On occasions, executions also took place here. The St Andrews mercat cross survived into the mid-seventeenth century, but seems to have been demolished at some stage before 1820. The location of the old mercat cross is indicated by an x-shape in the paving on the road.

最晚在十二世纪，市场开始在圣安德鲁斯出现。在1190年代，人们决定圣安德鲁斯的市场应该在“Lambinus之地” —— 即一个开放的空间，大概是如今市场街的位置。和其他苏格兰城镇一样, 市场的位置是用石柱表示的，并且被称为市场十字。市场十字是一个圣安德鲁斯居民见面的重要场所并且公告通常也是在这里宣布的。有时, 行刑也发生在这里。圣安德鲁斯市场十字幸存到十七世纪中叶, 但似乎在1820年之前在某个阶段被拆除了。如今，人们在路上用一个“x”形的标记指出了以前的市场十字的位置。

Audio 1 - Elizabeth Rhodes on the significance of the mercat cross
Audio 2 - Roger Mason on the life and death of Patrick Hamilton, Scotland's first martyr

音频 1 - 伊丽莎白·罗兹讲述市场十字的意义
音频 2 - 罗杰·梅森讲述帕苏格兰的第一个烈士特里克·汉密尔顿的生平

2015/6/7

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