Ancient tree · Medieval
Ding Dong tree
East Lothian
A named, long-standing tree carried in local memory as a landmark — included for its place in the landscape, with age and superlative claims held f…
- Near East Lothian
Scotland · Region
Ancient places in East Lothian
16 places in East Lothian, from the deepest prehistory to the medieval world.
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Ancient tree · Medieval
Great Yew of Ormiston
East Lothian
A named, long-standing tree carried in local memory as a landmark — included for its place in the landscape, with age and superlative claims held f…
- Near East Lothian
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Settlement · Prehistoric
Traprain Law
East Lothian
The hill was already a place of burial by around 1500 BC and shows evidence of occupation and ramparts after 1000 BC; the ramparts were rebuilt and…
- Near East Linton
- 25 min walk from car park
- Some walking
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Fortified place · Medieval
Dunbar Castle
East Lothian
One of Scotland's most fought-over border fortresses, defended by Black Agnes against an English siege and later tied to the downfall of Mary, Quee…
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Fortified place · Medieval
Hailes Castle
East Lothian
One of Scotland's oldest stone castles, its Hepburn owners bound it to the dramatic final days of Mary, Queen of Scots.
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Fortified place · Medieval
Luffness Castle
East Lothian
It preserves a rare occupied medieval tower house whose grounds still bear the trace of a 1549 Franco-Scottish fort thrown up during the Rough Wooing.
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Fortified place · Medieval
Preston Tower, East Lothian
East Lothian
A layered tower house whose defensive medieval keep was crowned with Renaissance living quarters, then burnt repeatedly across a century of Scottis…
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Building or ruin · Medieval
Seton Collegiate Church
East Lothian
A rare and unusually intact survival of a Scottish collegiate church, its choir and transepts left frozen mid-construction by the Reformation and s…
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Fortified place · Medieval
Tantallon Castle
East Lothian
It is the last of Scotland's great medieval curtain-wall castles, a red-sandstone stronghold of the powerful Douglas earls that endured repeated si…
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Fortified place · Medieval
Yester Castle
East Lothian
Its subterranean Goblin Ha' is a rare surviving example of medieval Gothic vaulting, wrapped in centuries of local legend about its wizard builder.
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