Mystery woman

Out for a Sunday walk, this time in Prestonpans, we came across a wall with several of these carvings. Most were even more weatherbeaten than this, and if dates and names had been there once, they had long been taken by the wind and salt spray coming off the Forth.

I like to speculate about who she might have been. A medieval princess perhaps - or maybe just the girlfriend of whoever built the wall. A sort of early equivalent of carving your beloved's name in the bark of a tree (or spraypainting it on a wall).