Cannonball House from Castlehill, Edinburgh

Category

Library Item

Item no

2274

Title

Cannonball House from Castlehill, Edinburgh

Description

Cannonball House on Castlehill. Women, one carrying a basket, and a boy stand outside a shop which advertises tea rooms. Men stand further along a cobblestone street near a street lamp.

Artist / maker

Chrystal, Francis M.

Date

1912

Size

15.6 x 20.5 cm

Type

Photograph

Location

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.

Castlehill is the section of the Royal Mile running from Castle Esplanade to the Lawnmarket in Edinburgh.

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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Business > Service industry > Shops

Places > Edinburgh areas > Old Town

Places > Edinburgh areas > Royal Mile

Places > Scotland > Edinburgh

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