Duddingston

Today I wandered over to Duddingston to find a multi geocache.

I took a number of photos and so made a collage

Top left: Entrance to Holyrood Park with Crow Hill in the background. I like the crowns on the street lamps

Top right: ‘louping-on-stane’ and ‘joug’s collar’. The former consists of four steps, to allow churchgoers to mount and dismount from their horses. The latter is an iron collar on a chain attached to the wall, and was used to humiliate any sinners, whose offences might have included blasphemy, adultery, drunkenness and failure to attend church regularly. This joug’s collar is one of a few examples left in Scotland.

Bottom left: The Sheep’s Head Inn claims to be ‘Scotland’s Oldest Bar’, established in 1360.

Bottom Right: A large square stone carving by T Chalk