Field Visit
Date 3 July 1913
Event ID 1089077
Category Recording
Type Field Visit
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1089077
FORTIFICATIONS.
Round the house at a short distance are the relics of a considerable ditch and of regularly drawn mounds, the lines of which may be seen in the plan given as Fig. 35. These probably represent the camp raised by the French commander De Thermes in the summer of 1549 to block English supplies to their garrison at Haddington (2). In January1552 the fort of Aberlady was ordered by the Queen-Regent and the lords to be delivered to Patrick Hepburn of Wauchton to be cast down and destroyed, ‘except the housis and mansioun thereof’; the artillery to be taken to Dunbar, the mansion and houses to be ‘enjoyed’ by Patrick as his heritage, as his father had done before him (3).Macfarlane in 1723 speaks of ‘some old fortifications viz. four bastions and two Fusnes (sic)’ i.e. fosses or ditches (4).
RCAHMS 1924, visited 3 July 1913.
(2) Cf. Illustrations of the Reign of Queen Mary p.37; (3) Reg. P.C. i. p.119 (4) Geog. Colls. P. 374
