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Dumfries, High Street, Rainbow Stairs

Quern (Period Unassigned)

Site Name Dumfries, High Street, Rainbow Stairs

Classification Quern (Period Unassigned)

Canmore ID 65590

Site Number NX97NE 57

NGR NX 97 76

Datum OSGB36 - NGR

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  • Council Dumfries And Galloway
  • Parish Dumfries
  • Former Region Dumfries And Galloway
  • Former District Nithsdale
  • Former County Dumfries-shire

Archaeology Notes

NX97NE 57 97 76.

An upper quern stone, 16 ins in diameter, which came from a house above the Rainbow Stairs, High Street, Dumfries (NX 9776) was donated to Dumfries Museum in 1915 by John Jardine, town mason. (No 4 Union Street was at one time the "Rainbow Tavern"; Rainbow Stairs not located.)

Trans Dumfriesshire Galloway Natur Hist Antiq Soc 1915; T A Halliday 1936

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