Castle from King's Stables

Category

Library Item

Item no

1813

Title

Castle from King's Stables

Description

Edinburgh Castle sits on a rockly outcrop. The fortification has a half-moon battery with gun loops in its walls. Below the castle is a sloping drying area with washing poles and lines. A road cuts between this area and a group of houses, another road runs alongside buildings some of which have pantile roofs. A horse and cart is travelling along the cobblestone road. A handcart is beside steps outside the doorway of a house, further along the road there are barrels next to a lean-to building.

Artist / maker

Unknown

Date

1850

Size

14.3 x 20 cm

Type

Photograph

Location

Edinburgh and Scottish Collection

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.

The word cobble has been used here to help with searching, an alternative term is sett. Sett stones describe both the type of stone and the method in which they are used.

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Homes > Residential buildings > Castles and palaces

Homes > Residential buildings > Houses

Places > Edinburgh areas > Old Town

Places > Scotland > Edinburgh

Transport > Land > Horse and carts

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