Field Visit
Date 1914 - 1923
Event ID 1088044
Category Recording
Type Field Visit
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1088044
Traprain Law,or Dumpender Law, lies 1 ½ miles to the south-south-west of the small town of East Linton in the parish of Prestonkirk. It is situated in an undulating terrain, which swells gradually upwards from the East Lothian seaboard to the Lammermuirs. Its summit – 710 feet above sea-level and 360 feet above its base – commands a wide prospect ranging from the Pentland Hills round by Gullane Hill and North Berwick to Dunbar, while to the southward the Lammermuirs fill the horizon.
[For a full description of the fort at Traprain and the finds recovered during its excavation, see RCAHMS 1924, 94-99. The article was most likely penned by A O Curle, the excavator of Traprain and Commissioner to RCAHMS]
RCAHMS 1924, visited 1914-23.
