What is recorded here

North Garden at Holyrood Palace in Edinburgh holds medieval pottery and unmarked human remains beneath soil that has absorbed royal business for centuries. The garden belongs to the crown, yet it may have swallowed ordinary people as readily as kings. Its quiet surface still covers lives the palace never named.

Scotland's National Record of the Historic Environment records Edinburgh, Holyrood Palace, North Garden as Garden (period Unassigned), Human Remains (period Unassigned), Unidentified Pottery (medieval). The official map says its point is accurate as follows: NGR given to the nearest 10m. The record does not by itself mean that the public may enter the place.

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