Edinburgh Castle

Category

Library Item

Item no

1985

Title

Edinburgh Castle

Description

Visitors walk past a row of cannons placed behind the crenellated walls of Edinburgh Castle. In the distance and viewed from the castle's battlements are the spires of the Tolbooth Kirk and St Giles Cathedral and Arthur's Seat towering over the buildings of the Old Town. Adjacent to the fortified wall is a small building with a pantile roof. A watch tower can be seen above some trees.

Artist / maker

Wyllie, H. D.

Date

1952

Size

10 x 14.8 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.

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Homes > Residential buildings > Castles and palaces

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