Edinburgh, Comiston
Inscribed Stone (17th Century)
Site Name Edinburgh, Comiston
Classification Inscribed Stone (17th Century)
Canmore ID 51788
Site Number NT26NW 43
NGR NT 2452 6885
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/51788
- Council Edinburgh, City Of
- Parish Edinburgh (Edinburgh, City Of)
- Former Region Lothian
- Former District City Of Edinburgh
- Former County Midlothian
Into the back of the modern lodge, which stands on the main road to Fairmilehead, have been built two portions of a dormer pediment. The upper stone, the finial, is wrought with a crude voluted capital surmounted by a lozenge and bearing a rose, while the lower stone is initialled A.C.,M.D., for Andrew Creich of Comiston and Margaret Dick, his wife, and is dated 1610.
RCAHMS 1929, visited 1928; J Geddie 1911
No trace. (Lodge has been demolished).
A N Robertson 1945; RCAHMS 1951
Field Visit (3 March 1928)
Inscribed Pediment, Comiston.
Into the back of the modern lodge, which stands on the main road to Fairmilehead, have been built two portions of a dormer pediment. The upper stone, the finial, is wrought with a crude voluted capital surmounted by a lozenge and bearing a rose, while the lower stone is initialled A.C., M.D., for Andrew Creich of Comiston (1) and Margaret Dick, his wife, and is dated 1610.
RCAHMS 1929, visited 3 March 1928.
(1) 'And. Creich of Colmiestoun' in Reg. Mag. Sig., s.a. 1614, No. 1108.