Archaeology Notes

Event ID 732016

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NY38SE 36 centred 3647 8449

For Battle of Arkinholm (NY 36 84) and market cross (NY 3646 8450, removed to NY 3688 8447), see NY38SE 15 and NY38SE 16 respectively. For tolbooth and town hall (NY 3646 8449), see NY38SE 40.

Erected burgh of barony, 1621 and burgh of regality, 1687.

G S Pryde 1965.

Small town beside the Esk, founded as a burgh of barony in 1621; its first substantial stone houses were erected a few years later.

J Gifford 1996.