Pricing Change
New pricing for orders of material from this site will come into place shortly. Charges for supply of digital images, digitisation on demand, prints and licensing will be altered.
Field Visit
Date 3 August 1908
Event ID 1088479
Category Recording
Type Field Visit
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1088479
157. Fortification, Eyemouth.
Eyemouth Fort occupies a promontory on the west side of the bay at the head of which the town stands, and is said to have been erected by the Protector Somerset in 1547. On the edge of the cliff, facing seaward, mounds forming a breastwork still remain to a height of 5 or 6 feet in places, but the edge of the cliff is crumbling and the ramparts are gradually disappearing. Towards the landward end of the promontory is a quadrangular mound or bastion known as ‘The King's Mound,’ surrounded by a deep ditch except towards the north-east or interior of the fort; it shows some indefinite remains of masonry at its base. The ditches and ramparts which formed the outer defences on the south and west are still quite distinct.
See Ber. Nat. Club, 1863-68, p. 422; Carr's Coldingham, p. 142
RCAHMS 1915, visited 3rd August 1908.
