What is recorded here

Dunbar Castle Park layers an Iron Age promontory fort, early Medieval buildings, a 7th-century cross, 12th-century courtyard and medieval walls beneath one coastal ridge. Coins and stone markers suggest the hill has long served as a place of visibility, claim and memory. People may have gathered there to mark territory, trade, pray or watch the sea, while later generations rebuilt what the storm and years kept taking back.

Scotland's National Record of the Historic Environment records Dunbar, Castle Park as Building(s) (early Medieval), Courtyard (12th Century), Cross (7th Century), Promontory Fort (iron Age), Wall(s) (medieval), Coin(s) (early Medieval). 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.

Dunbar, Castle Park was held by the de Vesci family in the 12th and 13th centuries and later by the Dunbars of Dunbar. It is important as a medieval stronghold associated with key historical events in East Lothian, including the Wars of Scottish Independence.

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