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Outline plan of siege works
Unknown, 1980, Map, Reproduction
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Outline plan of siege works
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Page from Leith Miscellany, volume I, outline plan of siege works
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Unknown
Date
1980
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Map;
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This outline plan of Siege Works was transcribed (with minor adjustment for probable surveying errors) from the Petworth map and related to outline reconstruction of the fortifications and the modern street plan.
The Petworth map is thought to have been sketched the day after the French surrendered at the siege of Leith on the 6th of June 1560, at a scale of 'eightye paces to ane ynche' (400 feet to an inch). It shows where the siege fortifications were built, and other features of the landscape of Leith at the time. The original is at Petworth House in Sussex, the home of a descendant of the Percy family who were at the siege. A copy is displayed at South Leith Parish Church.
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