Publication Account
Date 1951
Event ID 1096104
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Publication Account
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1096104
Defensive Ramparts, King's Park.
Some remains of a stone-built rampart [NT27SE 93], apparently defensive in character, run along the upper E. slopes of Arthur's Seat above the cultivation terraces ([NT27SE 76] No. 211) and, farther N., cross the best line of approach to the summit (Fig. 429A [DP 149972]). It is some 375yds. long and in parts appears to be double, but it is everywhere very much wasted. Mr. R. B. K. Stevenson, who first described the work (1), tentatively suggests a Dark Age date.
Remains of another rampart [NT27SE 38] (Fig. 429B) can also be traced for 375 yds. along the slopes W. of Hunter's Bog, while what seems to be a detached portion of it, about 100 yds. long over a gap, appears 160 yds. farther N. The Commissioners are indebted to Mr. Stevenson for having drawn their attention to these monuments, and also to [RCAHMS 1951] Nos. 209, 210 and 211.
RCAHMS 1951, visited c.1941
(1)P.S.A.S., lxxxi (1946-7), pp. 165 ff.
OS Map Midlothian iii N.E. (unnoted).
