
What is recorded here
Scotland's National Record of the Historic Environment records Edinburgh, Waterloo Place, Old Calton Burial Ground, Hume Monument as Commemorative Monument (18th Century). The official map says its point is accurate as follows: NGR given to the nearest 1m. The record does not by itself mean that the public may enter the place.
Commemorative 18th-century monument; significant as a neoclassical funerary structure in the Old Calton Burial Ground.
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Places near here
Mausoleum of David HumeHeritage attraction · 3 yd
Calton CraigsCliff · 5 yd
Scottish-American Soldiers MonumentMemorial · 7 yd
Edinburgh, Waterloo Place, Old Calton Burial Ground, American Civil War MemorialWar Memorial (19th Century) · 7 yd
Edinburgh, Waterloo Place, Old Calton Burial GroundBurial Ground (18th Century) · 18 yd
Political Martyrs' MonumentHeritage attraction · 28 yd
Abraham Lincoln looks out on Calton HillMountain or hill · 35 yd
Robert Burn MemorialHeritage place · 37 yd
Grave of David HumeChurch, cross or graveyard · 45 yd
Edinburgh, Waterloo Place, GeneralGeneral View (period Unassigned) · 60 yd
East End, Waterloo PlaceVisitor information · 147 yd
Edinburgh, 'dingwall Castle'Castle (medieval), Jail (16th Century) · 161 ydOther information
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