Archaeology Notes

Event ID 714338

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/714338

NT27SE 14.5 2619 7354

Blackfriars or Cowgate Port, associated with the Flodden Wall, was erected in 1516 at the junction of Cowgate and St Mary's Wynd. It was demolished in 1715.

J Grant 1882; D Wilson 1891; RCAHMS 1951; A S Simpson, S Stevenson and

N Holmes 1981.

No trace.

Visited by OS (JLD) 25 December 1953.