Edinburgh Castle Images

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Edinburgh Castle

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The Royal Palace in Crown Square (Source)

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Plan of Edinburgh Castle Key: A Esplanade B Gatehouse C Ticket office D Portcullis Gate & Argyle Tower E Argyle Battery F Mills Mount Battery & One o'Clock Gun G Cartsheds H Western Defences I Hospital J Butts Battery K Scottish National War Museum L Governors House M New Barracks N Military Prison O Royal Scots Museum P Foog's Gate Q Reservoirs R Mons Meg S Pet Cemetery T St. Margaret's Chapel U Half Moon Battery V Crown Square W Royal Palace X Great Hall Y Queen Anne Building Z Scottish National War Memorial (Source)

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Main gate from the Esplanade into the castle (with the gatehouse) (Source)

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The Portcullis Gate (Source)

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Governor's House (1742) (Source)

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The New Barracks (1799) (Source)

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Foog's Gate (Source)

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St. Margaret's Chapel (Source)

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The siege gun Mons Meg, described in a 17th-century document as "the great iron murderer called Muckle-Meg" (muckle being Scots for 'big') (Source)

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Half Moon Battery and Palace Block seen from the Esplanade (Source)

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The Castle dominates the city skyline (Source)

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Great Hall panoramic view-Edinburgh Castle (Source)

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The Queen Anne Building (centre-right) (Source)

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The Scottish National War Memorial (Source)

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Panoramic view from Edinburgh Castle, June 2024 (Source)

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A re-enactor portraying James Hepburn, 4th Earl of Bothwell, a husband of Mary, Queen of Scots, in the Great Hall (Source)

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Sentries guarding the Gatehouse (Source)

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Royal Marines emerging from Edinburgh Castle during the military tattoo in 2005 (Source)

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The One O'Clock Gun being fired from Mill's Mount Battery (Source)

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Alfred Buckham's "Aerial View of Edinburgh", from about 1920. (Source)

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Sir William Kirkcaldy of Grange, who held the castle on behalf of Queen Mary during the Lang Siege of 157173. Painting by Jean Clouet (Source)

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Diagram of a crag and tail feature, such as the Castle Rock: A is the crag formed from the volcanic plug, B is the tail of softer rock, and C shows the direction of ice movement. In the case of Edinburgh, the castle stands on the crag (A) with the Royal Mile extending along the tail (B) (Source)

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The castle is built on a volcanic rock, as seen here in a 19th-century view from the Grassmarket area (Source)

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The Castle seen from the North (Source)

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Map of northern Britain showing the Gododdin and other tribes c.600 AD (Source)

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St Margaret, depicted in a stained glass window in the chapel of Edinburgh Castle (Source)

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Statues of Robert the Bruce by Thomas Clapperton and William Wallace by Alexander Carrick were added to the Gatehouse entrance in 1929 (Source)

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A late-16th-century depiction of the castle, from Braun & Hogenberg's Civitates orbis terrarum, showing David's Tower at the centre (Source)

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Edinburgh Castle as it may have looked before the Lang Siege of 157173, with David's Tower and the Palace block, centre and left (Source)

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Detail from a contemporary drawing of Edinburgh Castle under siege in 1573, showing it surrounded by attacking batteries (Source)

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Sir William Drury, commander of Elizabeth I of England's Protestant troops who brought the Lang Siege to an end in 1573. Unknown artist (Source)

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Memorial plaque to Sir William Alexander, on the Castle Esplanade (Source)

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An engraving of Edinburgh Castle made shortly before the creation of the Esplanade was begun in 1753 (Source)

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Edinburgh Castle with the Nor Loch in foreground, around 1780, by Alexander Nasmyth (Source)

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King George IV waves from the battlements of the Half Moon Battery in 1822, drawn by James Skene (Source)

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Soldiers of the 92nd Regiment of Foot (later Gordon Highlanders) while on garrison duty at the castle in 1845.[111] (Source)

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Edinburgh Castle, waxed-paper negative by Thomas Keith, c. 1855. Department of Image Collections, National Gallery of Art Library, Washington DC (Source)