Natural feature
Cramond Island
Tidal island reached by a causeway of concrete wartime dragon's teeth, where a sanctioned duel once settled a killing.
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About this audio guide
This guide to Cramond Island in Edinburgh centers on a formal duel fought on these sands in March 1597, after James Carmichael killed Stephen Bruntfield in an earlier fight and Bruntfield's brother Adam accused him of treachery. Unable to settle it any other way, both men petitioned King James the Sixth for royal permission to fight it out, and a crowd said to number in the thousands gathered on the shore to watch two very different men face off in red satin and blue taffeta.
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