Publication Account
Date 1951
Event ID 1096124
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Publication Account
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1096124
211. Cultivation Terraces, King's Park.
Cultivation terraces are to be seen at the following places in the King's Park:
(i) [NT27SE 76, NT27SE 77 and NT27SE 135] On the E. slopes of Arthur's Seat, both above and below the Queen’s Drive. An account of these very striking group has already been published in the Inventory of Midlothian (1).
(ii) [NT27SE 102] To S. and E. of Dunsapie Fort (2) and extending E. of the fort outside the boundary wall of the Park [NT27SE 102]. (iii) [NT27SE 97] Immediately below the southernmost outcrop of the Echoing Rock; only the ends of two narrow terraces appear here, but it is possible that the broad rigs that cover the lower parts of this slope may have obliterated a group perhaps once comparable with those at Dunsapie.
(iv) [NT27SE 27] On the N.E. face of Haggis Knowe. At the bottom of the slope there are three long terraces, and above them some shorter and less well marked terraces and shelves.
RCAHMS 1951, visited c.1941
(1) No. 11. Cf. also P.S.A.S., lxxiii (1938-9), pp.289 ff., and lxxxi (1946-7), pp. 159 ff.
(2) Inventory of Midlothian and West Lothian, No. 10.
OS Map: Midlothian iii N.E. and S.E
