The Vennel and Edinburgh Castle

Category

Library Item

Item no

10813

Title

The Vennel looking towards Browns Place, Grassmarket and Edinburgh Castle

Description

The view down the steps of the Vennel, Edinburgh. The wide stepped street is divided in half by a black handrail. Stone walls stand on either side of the road at the top and houses at the bottom. Above the scene stands Edinburgh Castle on the Castle Rock. The barracks building can be seen to the far left and the rounded half moon battery to the right.

Artist / maker

MacLean, Kevin

Date

2007

Size

19 x 25.4 cm

Type

Digital image

Location

Edinburgh and Scottish Collection

The Vennel is a narrow street in Edinburgh leading from West Port near the Grassmarket to Heriot Place near George Heriot's School. 'Vennel' is a Scots word meaning 'steep lane'.

Edinburgh Castle is perhaps the city's most famous landmark. It stands on top of the remaining core of an extinct volcano. Excavations suggest the site was inhabited by Bronze Age man as early as 900 BC, and was fortified by Iron Age man roughly 2000 years ago. The oldest part of the present day Castle is St Margaret's Chapel, built in the early 12th century. The Castle holds the Honours of Scotland and more recently has welcomed back the Stone of Scone otherwise known as the Stone of Destiny.

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Homes > Residential buildings > Castles and palaces

Homes > Residential buildings > Houses

Places > Edinburgh areas > Old Town

Places > Edinburgh areas > Tollcross

Places > Scotland > Edinburgh

Transport > Infrastructure > Streets

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