Clermiston Tower (Corstorphine Hill Tower)
Published by smfoto on Friday, 23 February 2007 at 00:32
Look to the north or west from any high point in Edinburgh and you can see Corstorphine hill rising 158m from Corstorphine. Formed 3 million years ago, it's a sill and is made of dolerite and picrite to the north. Corstorphine Hill Tower (also known as Clermiston Tower or the Scott Tower) is a memorial to Sir Walter Scott. Built in 1871, the tower is square in plan, with buttressed corners; it has a corbelled, battlemented parapet surmounted by a small tower. It is built of coursed whinstone, likely to be from quarries on the hill, with dressed sandstone for the openings, parapets and plaques, probably from one of the large Edinburgh sandstone quarries.
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