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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).
