What is recorded here

Innerwick Castle is a ruined stronghold on the edge of a precipitous glen in East Lothian, built in the 14th century for the Stewarts and later the Hamilton family. It endured siege, fire, prisoner exchanges and royal command before becoming a base for Covenanters against Cromwell’s lines. The castle still stands within the glen, marked on the national record as a possible prehistoric round barrow, though its surviving identity is the Hamilton fortress that resisted English armies and changed hands across centuries.

Scotland's National Record of the Historic Environment records Innerwick Castle as Round Barrow (prehistoric)(possible). 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.

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