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Cannonball House, Edinburgh
Wyllie, H. D., 1945, Photograph
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Cannonball House, Edinburgh
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Title
Cannonball House, Edinburgh
Description
Children walk past the entrance to Cannonball House. The entrance is accessed by stairs bordered by stone walls.
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Wyllie, H. D.
Date
1945
Size
13.5 x 10.8 cm
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Photograph
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Edinburgh and Scottish Collection
Cannonball House is a tenement building located on Castlehill at the top of Edinburgh's Royal Mile. The building's name comes from the cannonball lodged in its wall. Legend has it that this projectile was fired from the Edinburgh Castle towards Holyrood Palace during the Jacobite siege of 1745. A more mundane , but more probable explanation is that the cannonball was used by engineers as a marker to indicate the height of the water source at Comiston from where Old Town's piped water supply was drawn.
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