Publication Account
Date 1951
Event ID 714095
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Publication Account
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/714095
NT27NE 95 270 763
Above the entrance to a pend at the S end of Tolbooth Wynd is inserted a panel representing the import of wine. It bears the initials C R in monogram and the date 1678. In the lower left-hand corner is a two-masted carvel-built vessel. In the lower right-hand corner is a warehouse behind which is a crane swinging casks ashore; the motive power is supplied by a youth working a tread-mill while a man outside assists him. In the upper left-hand corner are two wine-porters bearing a cask slung from a pole in the fashion called 'sting and ling'. from which the wine-porters became known as 'sting-men'.
RCAHMS 1951, visited c.1941
