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
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/65590
- Council Dumfries And Galloway
- Parish Dumfries
- Former Region Dumfries And Galloway
- Former District Nithsdale
- Former County Dumfries-shire
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
