One O'Clock Gun, Edinburgh Castle

Category

Library Item

Item no

2115

Title

One O'Clock Gun, Edinburgh Castle

Description

A plume of smoke comes from the firing of the one o'clock gun from the battlements of Edinburgh Castle. A crowd of people have gathered next to a nearby row of cannons to watch the event.

Artist / maker

Wyllie, H. D.

Date

1945

Size

11 x 14.9 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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Homes > Residential buildings > Castles and palaces

Military > Arms and armament > Cannons

Places > Edinburgh areas > Old Town

Places > Scotland > Edinburgh