Nelson Monument

Year

1816

Type

public art

Inverted telescope tower rising from the summit of Calton Hill, its battlemented circular shaft containing an internal stair and a time-ball mechanism at its top that drops at 1pm daily (synchronised with the one o'clock gun at the Castle) …

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