Edinburgh Castle from the Esplanade

Category

Library Item

Item no

2013

Title

Edinburgh Castle from the Esplanade showing a 21 gun salute

Description

Picture reproduced by kind permission of the Herald and Times Group.

Artist / maker

Unknown

Date

1966

Size

25.3 x 19.7 cm

Type

Photograph

Location

Edinburgh and Scottish Collection

The Castle Esplanade is an area of open ground between Edinburgh Castle and Castlehill. The area is used for the annual Edinburgh Military Tattoo.

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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