Edinburgh, Lauderdale Street, Bruntsfield House, Grave Slab
Commemorative Monument (17th Century), Plague Burial (17th Century)
Site Name Edinburgh, Lauderdale Street, Bruntsfield House, Grave Slab
Classification Commemorative Monument (17th Century), Plague Burial (17th Century)
Alternative Name(s) Bruntisfield House; Whitehouse Loan
Canmore ID 52564
Site Number NT27SE 96
NGR NT 2514 7221
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/52564
- Council Edinburgh, City Of
- Parish Edinburgh (Edinburgh, City Of)
- Former Region Lothian
- Former District City Of Edinburgh
- Former County Midlothian
NT27SE 96 2514 7221
A grave slab, found in Spottiswood Street (NT 252 720) is now built into the garden wall of Bruntsfield House. Dated 1645, it measures 6ft 6ins by 3ft 3ins. Its isolation suggests a plague burial.
J Grant 1882; RCAHMS 1951.
NT 2514 7221. In garden wall as described, considerably defaced. Visited by OS (JLD) 31 December 1953 and (SFS) 3 December 1975.
INVENTORY OF GRAVEYARD AND CEMETERY SITES IN SCOTLAND REFERENCE:
Address: Grave Slab, Bruntsfield House, Lauderdale Street, Edinburgh
Postcode: EH9 1DD
Status: Not known
Size: N/a
TOIDs:
Number of gravestones: 1
Earliest gravestone: 1645
Most recent gravestone: 1645
Description: Isolated burial, possibly plague burial
Data Sources: OS MasterMap checked 20 September 2005
See also:
NT27SE 75 Edinburgh, 57 Lauderdale Street, Bruntsfield House
NT27SE 440 Edinburgh, Lauderdale Street, Bruntsfield House, Ice-house
NT27SE 2273 Edinburgh, Warrender Park, General
Publication Account (1951)
TOMBSTONE. A 17th-century grave slab found nearby in Spottiswoode Street has been built into a garden wall on the E. of the house [Bruntsfield]. Measuring 6 ft. 6 in. by 3 ft. 3 in., it bears in its lower half a shield charged with a saltire; this may possibly be for Rose, as at one time the initials M I R and the date 1645 were legible beside the shield (1). In the upper part is a scroll bearing an illegible motto above a weatherworn cherub's head, as well as a skull and cross-bones flanked by two mattocks.
RCAHMS 1951, visited c.1941
(1) Warrender, Walks near Edinburgh, p.
