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| List of names as written | Various modes of spelling | Authorities for spelling | Situation | Description remarks |
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| CRAIGMILLAR CASTLE (Ruins of) | Craigmillar Castle | George Watson Liberton E [East] Mains W. Kerr Greenend | 006 ; 007 | The ruins of an ancient Castle situated on a Rocky hill about 2 1/2 Miles South East of Edinburgh occupying a princely site thereon; embracing an extensive view of the surrounding County, and from all sides it presents one outline of sublime taste for artistic elegance There is quite a mystery as regards the time in which this place was used as a place of strength, some asserting it to be from the time when the romans invaded this Country, from the Circumstances of the Castle being built partly of Roman brick, however strange this may appear it may nevertheless be true, but what may be truly represented as the original building is a square portion about 60 ft [feet] high consisting of 3 floors or storeys arched. with walls about 12ft [feet] thick, and for the time in which it was built must have presented a formidable barrier to any aggressive parties this together with |
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