Lost Cross
| Parish/District | Ruskington/North Kesteven |
| Location | opposite the churchyard gate |
| Category | Lost cross (Market cross?) |
| National Grid Ref | originally in vicinity of TF 08310 51068 |
| Designation | N/A |
| Stone Type | – |
| Refs | Trollope, Revd E., 1872, Sleaford etc, p, vii; |
| Visits | – |
Writing in 1871, the Revd Edward Trollope reports: – ‘two large stones were found in Ruskington opposite the churchyard gate, and about a foot below the surface of the Town street. These were a little more than three feet square. In the centre of one was a socket about a foot square, which seems to indicate that they once served as the base of a village cross’.
Ruskington was granted market charters for Friday and Saturday markets in 1265 and 1267. The wide area of the High Street still has a stream (The Beck) running down its centre and offers an ideal site for a market place. Maybe these remains were the last vestige of Ruskington’s market cross?
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