Edinburgh, Holyrood Park, Arthur's Seat
Encampment (Period Unassigned)
Site Name Edinburgh, Holyrood Park, Arthur's Seat
Classification Encampment (Period Unassigned)
Alternative Name(s) Queen's Park
Canmore ID 52158
Site Number NT27SE 141
NGR NT 27657 72823
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/52158
- Council Edinburgh, City Of
- Parish Edinburgh (Edinburgh, City Of)
- Former Region Lothian
- Former District City Of Edinburgh
- Former County Midlothian
NT27SE 141 2765 7282.
(Area NT 279 728) The encampment of Prince Charles's army prior to and after the Battle of Prestonpans in 1745 extended from near the SE base of Arthur's Seat to the Queen's Drive, almost as far as Wester Duddingston.
Name Book 1853.
The site of this encampment is marked where the enclosures described on NT27SE 87 are situated (NT 280 728) and to the north on some maps. On a contemporary Hanoverian sketch exhibited at the Jacobite Exhibition in Edinburgh in 1946, the camp was shown nearer Duddingston.
R B K Stevenson 1948.
Noted.
NMRS, MS/726/96 (56, no. 42).
