A second
monument, a tall obelisk, commemorating the Wigtown Martyrs tops
Windy Hill above Wigtown.
Detail from the plaques around the monument is shown below
The view over the town shows the merse
where the executions took place.
The Town Hall shown below is the site where the martyrs were
imprisoned.
Monuments
to the Wigtown Martyrs can be found further afield.
The Victorians
of Burgh of Stirling in Central Scotland, honoured Covenanter martyrs by
erecting statues in their 'new' graveyard
below the famous Stirling Castle.
This bleak
castle of Dunnottar in north-east Scotland, now a ruin,
has
direct connectionswith the Covenanters of south-west
Scotland.
When prisons
in Edinburgh could no longer hold the large numbers awaiting
trial
they were marched under guard for over two-hundred miles to
be imprisoned here.