Edinburgh: Topographic Views of Arthur's Seat (Holyrood Park)

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Title	Edinburgh: Topographic Views of Arthur's Seat (Holyrood Park)
View	View of hiking trail, with traditional hurdle fencing and highway
Notes	Hurdles are a form of rural crafts. They are lightweight portable fencing structures, here used to control erosion and used to aid the growth of new hedges. They are made from split poles or small tree branches (ash, willow, hazel)
Work Type	visual works photographs visual works topographical views
Style/Period	Twenty-first century
Creator Name	Gilchrist, Scott
Creator Nationality	Canadian
Date.Creator Birth	1960
Subject.work	cityscape landscape parks (recreation areas) geology glaciers
Country	United Kingdom
City	Edinburgh
State/Province	Scotland
Location.Notes	GPS for the hill itself, located about 1 mile east of Edinburgh Castle
Architectural Material	digital images
Technique	photography
Dates	2009 (creation)
Photographer	Gilchrist, Scott
Date Photographed	5/3/2009
Subject Information	Arthur's Seat is the main peak of the group of hills which form most of Holyrood Park, described by Robert Louis Stevenson as'a hill for magnitude, a mountain in virtue of its bold design'. It is situated in the centre of the city of Edinburgh, about a mile to the east of Edinburgh Castle, near Holyrood Palace. The hill rises above the city to a height of 250.5 m (822 ft). Like the castle rock on which Edinburgh Castle is built, it was formed by an extinct volcano system of Carboniferous age (approximately 350 million years old), which was eroded by a glacier moving from west to east. The Salisbury Crags are a series of 46-metre (151 ft) cliffs at the top of a subsidiary spur of Arthurs Seat which rise in the middle of Holyrood Park (650-acre (260 ha) in area).
Information.source	Wikipedia; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
Credit Line	copyright Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.
Collection Title	Archivision (architecture, urban design, gardens, landscapes and public art)

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