Edinburgh, Pleasance, Quaker Burial Ground
Burial Ground (17th Century) (1675)
Site Name Edinburgh, Pleasance, Quaker Burial Ground
Classification Burial Ground (17th Century) (1675)
Canmore ID 275058
Site Number NT27SE 2816.01
NGR NT 26308 73339
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/275058
- Council Edinburgh, City Of
- Parish Edinburgh (Edinburgh, City Of)
- Former Region Lothian
- Former District City Of Edinburgh
- Former County Midlothian
NT27SE 2816.01 26308 73339
INVENTORY OF GRAVEYARD AND CEMETERY SITES IN SCOTLAND REFERENCE:
Address: Quaker Meeting House Burial Ground, Pleasance, Edinburgh
Postcode: EH8 9TJ
Status: Not known
Size: 0.05 hectares, 0.11 acres
Polygon: No
TOIDs:
Number of gravestones: Not known
Earliest gravestone: Not known
Most recent gravestone: Not Known
Description: Burial ground associated with church
Data Sources: OS MasterMap checked 14 September 2005
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
