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Publication Account
Date 1951
Event ID 1096456
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Publication Account
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1096456
247. Siege Works, Leith Links.
On the S. side of Leith Links are two large mounds about 250yds. apart, known respectively as the "Giant's Brae" and "Lady Fife's Brae". The latter name refers to the Countess of Fife, who lived in Hermitage House immediately S. of this mound (1). They are in reality the remains of two gun positions, Somerset's battery and Pelham's battery, set up in 1560, during the siege of Leith, by the English troops supporting the Congregation against the Queen Regent, Marie de Guise-Lorraine. Cf. Calendar of State Papers, i, p. 400.
RCAHMS 1951, visited c.1941
(1) Russell, The Story of Leith, p. 279.
