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Archaeology Notes
Event ID 715709
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/715709
NT36SE 7.01 38008 61088
(NT 3801 6107) The Slaughter House (NR)
Ruins of Chapel (NR) (Supposed)
OS 6" map, Midlothian, 1st ed., (1852).
This building has all the appearance of an old chapel. It is not known locally what its purpose was; some say it was for the accommodation of visitors' retainers, others suppose it was for keeping cattle.
Name Book 1852.
This roofless building was a stable, with quarters for the grooms overhead. The buttressing is an afterthought. There are foundations of other outbuildings nearby.
W D Simpson 1957.
A ruined building, of uncertain purpose, as described.
Visited by OS (BS), 24 October 1975.
