View of cultivation terraces from NE.
SC 431750
Description View of cultivation terraces from NE.
Catalogue Number SC 431750
Category On-line Digital Images
Copy of ED 10382
Scope and Content Cultivation terraces on Haggis Knowe, Holyrood Park, City of Edinburgh Holyrood Park contains many remains from the days when it was farmland. At the south-west end of St Margaret's Loch lies a small knoll known as Haggis Knowe. On the lower slopes, a series of well-preserved cultivation terraces may be seen. Cultivation terraces were constructed as a response to farming on a slope. In this way strips of level ground were obtained for crops. There is no clear evidence for the steading from which these fields were farmed. The last record of tillage in the Park dates to 1615, but the terraces may have originated well before that. Elsewhere in Scotland they have been shown to date back into prehistoric times. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
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