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Dogs' Cemetery, Edinburgh Castle
Wyllie, H. D., 1945, Photograph
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Dogs' Cemetery, Edinburgh Castle
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2050
Title
Dogs' Cemetery, Edinburgh Castle
Description
The Dogs' Cemetery in Edinburgh Castle. Around the wall are headstones. A floodlight is in front of the gravestones. Princes Street and Princes Street Gardens can be seen in the background. Buses travel along the road.
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Wyllie, H. D.
Date
1945
Size
10.7 x 15.5 cm
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Photograph
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Edinburgh and Scottish Collection
The Dogs' Cemetery in Edinburgh Castle has been used as a burial ground for regimental mascots and officers' pet dogs since the 1840s.
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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