Archaeology Notes

Event ID 714112

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NT27SE 7 2572 7361.

(Name: NT 2572 7361) Luckenbooths (NR) (Site of)

OS 1/1250 plan, (1970)

This name applied to a four-storeyed tenement, mostly timber fronted, which stretched along the N side of St Giles' Cathedral, being separated from it by a narrow passage in which, between the buttresses of the church were placed the open stalls, called "krames". When first built, in 1440, the tenement was of 2 storeys and was called the "Buith Raw"; it was heightened in the 16th or 17th century. The Luckenbooths were demolished in 1817, to widen the High Street.

RCAHMS 1951.

No trace. No further information.

Visited by OS (J L D) 25 December 1953.