Arthur's Seat from Lochend

Category

Library Item

Item no

15606

Title

Arthur's Seat from Lochend

Description

A small boat sales over Lochend Loch. Rising above the lochside is a substantial house. A wooden fence separates the house and loch from the trees of the surrounding countryside. Arthur's Seat in the distance towers above the scene.

Artist / maker

Clerk, John

Date

1855

Size

3cm x 7cm

Type

Etching

Location

Edinburgh and Scottish Collection

Lochend Park is situated immediately to the east of Hibernian FC's stadium in the north-east of Edinburgh. It contains Lochend House and a 16th century doocot, possibly adapted for the burning of materials contaminated by plague.

Centred mainly around Lochend Loch, much of modern day Lochend is part of the public housing build from the 1920s and 1930s.

Arthur's Seat is the remains of a now extinct volcano which rises 250 metres (823 feet) above Holyrood Park in Edinburgh. Remains of an Iron Age Hill fort were found on the east side of the hill. The origins of the peak's name have been somewhat lost. One theory is that it is a corruption of the gaellic Ard-na-saith, meaning height of arrows, indicating a past usage as a practice place for archery. Arthur's Seat is also known as the Lion's Head.

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Landscape > Land > Hills

Landscape > Water > Loch, lakes and ponds

Places > Edinburgh areas > Holyrood

Places > Edinburgh areas > Lochend

Places > Scotland > Edinburgh

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