Archaeology Notes
Event ID 713118
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
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NT27SE 1.13 25074 73582
Well-House Cradle (NR) (Ruins of).
OS 1/1250 plan, (1947).
Name changed from Wallace's Cradle. (Ruins of)
Information from OS recorder (AL) 14 December 1950.
A platform, half-way up a fissure in the rock, immediately above the Well-House Tower (Midlothian 3 NE 1.12) which is known as the Crane Bastion, or popularly as Wallace's Cradle (RCAHMS 1951). On this
bastion stood the crane used in bringing up the water from the Well-house...(J S Richardson and M Wood 1948).
Visited by OS(JLD) 23 October 1953.
(NT 2508 7359) Well as described above
Visited by OS(JLD) 29 December 1953.
Crane Cradle (NR).
Information from OS recorder (DT) 16 June 1955.
A platform c 3-5m x 2.0m constructed of rubble masonry situated c 15.0m up on the steep N face of Edinburgh Castle rock.
Visited by OS(SFS) 10 November 1975.