Old Sign, Bell's Brae, Edinburgh

This sign is on the building at the top of Bell's Brae, Dean Village one that has always intrigued me. I'd just love to go inside and look around the higgledy piggely rooms.

It was an inn, the Baxters' House of Call (Baxters' was the baker's guild). The stone sign is dated 1619 and features a sun, wheatsheaves and bakers' shovels (peels). The quotation reads 'In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread.' Bell's Brae, built in 1673, became the main road out of Edinburgh to the Queen's Ferry