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Archaeology Notes
Event ID 718742
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/718742
NT57SW 27 5133 7383.
(NT 5133 7383) The Palace of Haddington stood in King Street, now Court Street, on the site of the present County Buildings. (See NT57SW 138 5133 7383.) Remains of its vaulting were found in 1833 when the site was being excavated. It was an occasional residence of William the Lion (1165-1214) and the birthplace of Alexander II in 1198.
C E Green 1907
No further information was found.
Visited by OS (BS) 9 July 1975
Haddington, although an early royal burgh, did not have a castle. Gray and Jamieson (1944) describe a 'palace' (referred to by Green, supra) as the site where the sixth earl of Athol was murdered in 1242.
R Gourlay and A Turner 1977
