What is recorded here

Dunbar Castle Park holds a 17th-century building, a 16th-century ditch and an Iron Age fort, layers of human ambition pressed into East Lothian soil. The fort may have watched the coast for centuries before the ditch cut through the land and the building rose above it. Each layer changed the place but none erased the ones below.

Scotland's National Record of the Historic Environment records Dunbar, Castle Park as Building (17th Century), Ditch (16th Century), Fort (iron Age) - (early Medieval). The official map says its point is accurate as follows: NGR given to the nearest 10m. The record does not by itself mean that the public may enter the place.

Dunbar, Castle Park was originally an Iron Age fort, later modified in the early medieval period, and further developed in the 16th and 17th centuries. It is important as a multi-period site that illustrates long-term strategic use of the location in East Lothian.

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