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Interior. General view from North West during excavations
SC 436789
Description Interior. General view from North West during excavations
Catalogue Number SC 436789
Category On-line Digital Images
Copy of ED 8104
Scope and Content Excavations in the Tron Kirk, High Street, Edinburgh The Tron Kirk church was built as 'Christ Church at the Tron' c.1637 by John Mylne to house a congregation displaced when St Giles became a cathedral under Charles I's charter of 1633. It took its name from the 'tron' or weigh beam that once stood here. Excavations in 1974 revealed a 16th-century cobbled winding street, Marlin's Wynd, named after Walter Merlion, a French mason who paved the High Street in 1532, the remains of cellars of tenement buildings, pottery, clay pipes and oyster shells. In the 16th and 17th century, oysters, probably from the River Forth, were part of the normal diet of residents, both rich and poor, of the Old Town. The shells were ground and used as grouting in mortar. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
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