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Field Visit
Date 13 March 2005
Event ID 613862
Category Recording
Type Field Visit
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/613862
Tall square tower, five storeys high, with buttressed corners up to the second floor. Castellated top with small castellated turret. Small grilled windows on each floor, apart from the ground floor which has blocked up windows.
Inscriptions : (incised letters):
CORSTORPHINE / HILL / TOWER / SIR WALTER SCOTT 1771-1832 / ERECTED IN 1871 BY WM MACFIE OF CLERMISTON / PRESENTED IN 1932 TO THE CITY / BY W. G. WALKER C.A. F.S.A. SCOT.
Signatures : None
Design period : 1871
Year of unveiling : 1871
Information from Public Monuments and Sculpture Association (PMSA Work Ref : EDIN1390)
