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Publication Account

Date 1978

Event ID 1017882

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Publication Account

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1017882

Haddington, although an early royal burgh, was an anomaly for it did not have a castle. Gray and Jamieson described a 'palace' in the west end of the High Street as the site where the sixth earl of Athol was murdered in 1242 (1944, 139). Their belief in the 'palace' was strengthened by the discovery of fragments of arched Norman masonry on the site of the County Buildings in 1833 (Gray and Jamieson, 1944, 139).

Information from ‘Historic Haddington: The Archaeological Implications of Development’ (1978).

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