Major General Mike Scott fires the One O'Clock Gun

Category

Library Item

Item no

2099

Title

Castle Governor Major General Mike Scott fires the One O'Clock Gun before leaving to join the M.o.D in London

Artist / maker

Unknown

Date

1995

Size

20.2 x 25.3 cm

Type

Photograph

Location

Edinburgh and Scottish Collection

The famous One O'Clock Gun is fired every day except Sunday at 1pm from Edinburgh Castle's Mills Mount Battery.

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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