Edinburgh, Leith, Tolbooth Wynd
Carved Stone (17th Century), Date Stone (17th Century)
Site Name Edinburgh, Leith, Tolbooth Wynd
Classification Carved Stone (17th Century), Date Stone (17th Century)
Canmore ID 52025
Site Number NT27NE 95
NGR NT 270 763
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/52025
- Council Edinburgh, City Of
- Parish Edinburgh (Edinburgh, City Of)
- Former Region Lothian
- Former District City Of Edinburgh
- Former County Midlothian
EXTERNAL REFERENCES:
20.1.1814 Pet. John Crokats Land.
Plans, elevation and section of proposed alterations and improvements unsigned.
Publication Account (1951)
NT27NE 95 270 763
Above the entrance to a pend at the S end of Tolbooth Wynd is inserted a panel representing the import of wine. It bears the initials C R in monogram and the date 1678. In the lower left-hand corner is a two-masted carvel-built vessel. In the lower right-hand corner is a warehouse behind which is a crane swinging casks ashore; the motive power is supplied by a youth working a tread-mill while a man outside assists him. In the upper left-hand corner are two wine-porters bearing a cask slung from a pole in the fashion called 'sting and ling'. from which the wine-porters became known as 'sting-men'.
RCAHMS 1951, visited c.1941
