Edinburgh, Holyrood Park, Haggis Knowe
Cultivation Terrace(S) (Period Unassigned), Rig And Furrow (Medieval) - (Post Medieval)
Site Name Edinburgh, Holyrood Park, Haggis Knowe
Classification Cultivation Terrace(S) (Period Unassigned), Rig And Furrow (Medieval) - (Post Medieval)
Alternative Name(s) Queen's Park; Hunter's Bog
Canmore ID 157239
Site Number NT27SE 3941
NGR NT 2725 7370
NGR Description NT 2725 7370 to NT 2739 7366
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/157239
- Council Edinburgh, City Of
- Parish Edinburgh (Edinburgh, City Of)
- Former Region Lothian
- Former District City Of Edinburgh
- Former County Midlothian
Field Visit (15 December 1998)
NT27SE 3941 2725 7370 to 2739 7366
Fragments of cultivation terraces extend across the hillside to the W of Haggis Knowe, lying to either side of the modern track that provides vehicular access to Hunter's Bog. The terraces are narrow, measuring between 3.5m and 5m in breadth, and their leading scarps are up to 0.6m in height. Several extend obliquely down the slope, and the different alignments that are discernible suggest that they are the legacy of successive phases of ploughing. Traces of at least three rigs lie below the lowest terrace and are aligned from NNW to SSE. The terraces and rigs are plotted at 1:5,550 on an archaeological map of Holyrood Park (RCAHMS 1999).
Visited by RCAHMS (ARG), 15 December 1998.
RCAHMS 1999.
