Edinburgh Castle Palace Block and Half Moon Battery
by Yvonne Johnstone
Title
Edinburgh Castle Palace Block and Half Moon Battery
Artist
Yvonne Johnstone
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Photograph - Photography
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Edinburgh Castle occupies the summit of an ancient plug of volcanic rock towering 260ft or 80m above the city it dominates, and is visible for tens of miles in every direction.
The site of Edinburgh Castle was occupied as early as 900BC. By the time the Romans made their brief visits to Scotland in AD80 and AD139 it was an important fort of the Votadini people, later known as the Gododdin, who called it Din Eidyn.
Din Eidyn was besieged and captured by the Angles in AD638. They Anglicised the name to Edinburgh, which is how it stayed after they were evicted by the Scots under Malcolm II in 1018.
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March 17th, 2019
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