Edinburgh, 76, 78, 80 Pleasance, University Of Edinburgh, Societies Centre
Students Union (19th Century), Tenement (18th Century)
Site Name Edinburgh, 76, 78, 80 Pleasance, University Of Edinburgh, Societies Centre
Classification Students Union (19th Century), Tenement (18th Century)
Alternative Name(s) 68-80 Pleasance; Friends Meeting House Pend; Edinburgh University
Canmore ID 119861
Site Number NT27SE 1653
NGR NT 26286 73337
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/119861
- Council Edinburgh, City Of
- Parish Edinburgh (Edinburgh, City Of)
- Former Region Lothian
- Former District City Of Edinburgh
- Former County Midlothian
ARCHITECT OF 68 - 78 PLEASANCE : Charles Black, Builder, 1803-4.
SCOTTISH RECORD OFFICE REFERENCE TAKEN FROM CATALOGUE SLIP:
Minutes of Monthly Meetings (Quakers)
SRO CH10.1.4 - text
Former Campbell Hope & King Brewery.
For Quaker Meeting House see NT27SE 2816
Field Visit (8 December 2005)
Headland Archaeology Ltd was commissioned to carry out a desk-based assessment and walkover survey of land along the western side of Viewcraig Gardens, and lying directly behind the Pleasance Sports and Exercise Centre and Sports Union of the University of Edinburgh, which occupy two former 19th Century breweries. Map evidence suggests that whilst most of this area was scarped during the construction of the Dumbiedykes housing estate in the 1960s/1970s, some level areas directly behind the former breweries may be undisturbed. Archaeological remains relating either to the breweries, or to earlier post-medieval settlement/cultivation around the extra-mural suburb of Pleasance, may, therefore, survive.
Headland Archaeology 2005
