Scotticism: Crawsteps

You may have seen these in some of your travels around the world, but they are a traditional Scottish form of architecture.  They are crawsteps, or crowsteps in other parts of Britain.  Craw is the Scots form of the English crow.  The gable walls of many of the old houses and buildings here are lined with crawsteps, often leading to a chimney stack. 

Below is Edgecliff, the philosophy building of the University.