Edinburgh Castle, Forewall Battery

Battery (16th Century)

Site Name Edinburgh Castle, Forewall Battery

Classification Battery (16th Century)

Canmore ID 52075

Site Number NT27SE 1.15

NGR NT 25187 73494

Datum OSGB36 - NGR

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/52075

Digital Images

SC 1092539

Historic photograph. View showing Forewall Battery with drummer. Mount signed; 'Thomas Ross' inscribed: 'Edinburgh Castle. December 1912.'

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Thomas Ross

12/1912

SC 2443006

Edinburgh Castle, Forewall Battery, NT27SE 1.15, Ordnance Survey index card, Recto

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Records of the Ordnance Survey, Southampton, Hampshire, England

1958

DP 421965

View from Edinburgh Castle ramparts showing Forewall Battery and cannon

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Violet Banks

c. 1930

DP 221107

Oblique aerial view of Edinburgh Castle centred on the Forewall Battery, looking NW.

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RCAHMS Aerial Photography Digital

11/9/2015

DP 221102

Oblique aerial view centred on the main entrance to Edinburgh Castle, looking NNE.

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RCAHMS Aerial Photography Digital

11/9/2015

DP 221119

Oblique aerial view of Edinburgh Castle centred on the Crown Room, looking E.

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RCAHMS Aerial Photography Digital

11/9/2015

SC 2443007

Edinburgh Castle, Forewall Battery, NT27SE 1.15, Ordnance Survey index card, Recto

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Records of the Ordnance Survey, Southampton, Hampshire, England

1958

DP 221104

Oblique aerial view of Edinburgh Castle centred on the Scottish National War Memorial, Edinburgh Castle, looking NNW.

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RCAHMS Aerial Photography Digital

11/9/2015

DP 221120

Oblique aerial view of Edinburgh Castle centred on the Palace Yard, looking E.

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RCAHMS Aerial Photography Digital

11/9/2015

DP 221141

Oblique aerial view of Edinburgh Castle centred on the Palace Yard, looking W.

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RCAHMS Aerial Photography Digital

11/9/2015

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Administrative Areas

Council Edinburgh, City Of
Parish Edinburgh (Edinburgh, City Of)
Former Region Lothian
Former District City Of Edinburgh
Former County Midlothian

Archaeology Notes

NT27SE 1.15 25187 73494

Forewall Battery (NR).

OS 1/500 plan, (1895); OS 1/1250 plan, (1947).

(NT 2518 7349) No remarks. No information contained in RCAHMS 1951. Visited by OS(JLD) 29 December 1953.

No further information

Visited by OS(SFS) 10 November 1975.

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