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Witches Knowe

Execution Site (Post Medieval)

Site Name Witches Knowe

Classification Execution Site (Post Medieval)

Alternative Name(s) Innerwick Farm House; Single Knowes Field

Canmore ID 58969

Site Number NT77SW 63

NGR NT 729 736

Datum OSGB36 - NGR

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/58969

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  • Council East Lothian
  • Parish Innerwick (East Lothian)
  • Former Region Lothian
  • Former District East Lothian
  • Former County East Lothian

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Field Visit (26 June 1913)

Some 500 yards east of the dwelling house on Innerwick Farm and nearly 200 yards south of the public road, in a field called Single Knowes field, is a slightly rising piece of ground known as the Witches Knowe, on which a number of witches are said to have been burnt.

RCAHMS 1924, visited 26 June 1913

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