The Massacre of Glencoe Monument is a memorial to the Massacre of Glencoe , which took place here in the Highlands of Scotland on the 13th of February 1692, following the Jacobite uprising of 1689–92. Sculpted by Alexander Macdonald and Co. of Aberdeen in 1883, a tapering 18-foot granite Celtic cross soars up from a rugged cairn above the river in Upper Carnoch. Its design is based on the elaborate Gosforth Cross. An annual wreath-laying ceremony is held at the Monument to commemorate those who