Archaeology Notes

Event ID 831389

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NT27SE 1747 26688 72796

NMRS REFERENCE:

Edinburgh, Jeanie Deans Cottage which was Category C Listed was demolished in the 1950s.

Only one wall remains at entrance to Holyrood Park from St Leonard's Bank.

(Undated) information in NMRS Demolitions Catalogue.

Jeannie Dean's Cottage was situated immediately adjacent to the pedestrian entrance from St Leonard's Bank to Holyrood Park. It was a single-storey building with a pantile roof and chimney stacks at both gables. The character of Jeannie Dean was created by Sir Walter Scott in the novel 'The Heart of Midlothian', and, according to the story, she resided in this cottage. The cottage was latterly occupied by a Park ranger, but was demolished in the late 1960's when it was deemed too expensive to modernise.

Information from RCAHMS (ARG), 16 November 1999; NMRS, MS/726/96 (78, no. 92).

A cultural heritage survey of Holyrood Park, Edinburgh, was undertaken in February 1996. The survey was designed to identify and evaluate the archaeological remains present within Holyrood Park, through the examination of desk-based sources and a field inspection. A large number of sites were already recorded within the park and are listed in the NMRS. The following list is of sites not previously recorded (excluding rig and furrow and unassociated field banks), the majority of which relate to quarrying activities or are features associated with 19th-century use and management of the park.

NT 2668 7279 Jeanie Dean's Cottage (site of).

A full report will be lodged with the NMRS.

Sponsor: Historic Scotland

D Alexander 1996.