Archaeology Notes

Event ID 716546

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NT37SW 409 centred 3460 7270

Formerly entered as NT37SE 80 at cited location NT 34 72 to NT 35 72.

There is no clear evidence that Musselburgh was a burgh until the time of Robert I, 1315 x 1328, when it was dependent on Dunfermline abbey; it became a burgh of regality in 1562.

G S Pryde 1965.