Field Visit
Date 6 August 1908
Event ID 1088215
Category Recording
Type Field Visit
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1088215
39. Edington Castle or Manor-house.
The scanty remains of Edington Castle are situated at the side of a market-garden about 100 yards south of the road from Berwick to Chirnside, and some ¾ mile south of Edington Hill farm. They consist of the south front, 86 feet in length, with a portion of the east wall, 24 feet in length. Thickness of walls 3 feet. The south wall is about 10 feet high.
See Carr's Coldingham, p. 162.
Dovecot. A large dovecot, with a tiled roof and crow-step gables, stands in the south-east corner of the market garden at Edington. It is built of large blocks of dressed sandstone, and its walls are some 3 feet in thickness.
RCAHMS 1915, visited 6 August 1908.
OS Map: Ber., xvii. N.E.
