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Cultivation Terraces

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These terraces on the east side of Arthur's Seat extend for almost 230 metres, varying from about 5 to 10 metres wide and up to almost 4 metres high. No dating evidence has so far been reported, although it's reckoned that they have been used from the Bronze Age. Posted by Martin
3rd June 2002ce

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This sandstone mould was found at Dunsapie, near to some of the cultivation terraces and the bronze age remains of settlements. It was used to cast a number of objects, sometime between 200 BC and 1000 AD.

http://nms.scran.ac.uk/database/record.php?usi=000-100-034-214-C&scache=3u8bkbj69o&searchdb=scran

This axe head was also found near to Dunsapie and Duddingston cultivation terraces when they were building the Queen's Drive.

http://nms.scran.ac.uk/database/record.php?usi=000-100-082-616-C&scache=1u8tfbj69i&searchdb=scran
Posted by Branwen
1st October 2009ce
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