Archaeology Notes

Event ID 748027

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NT27NE 140 2640 7580

Sited from Petworth map of seige of Leith, 1560. A battery of 3 cannon and 3 field guns with a second battery of 9 field guns to the NE, behind a rampart. Construction began at the end of April 1560, on the broad ridge between the Broughton burn and the Water of Leith, and was joined to Pelham's Mount (NT27NE 141) by a trench system. The name Pelrygge is featured immediately E of the fort, and the future Pilrig House (NT27NE 24) appears to have been built at the forts SW corner. Some stonework in the basement of Pilrig House has been taken to suggest an earlier structure, but not conclusively.

S Harris 1992

See NT27NE 11.