Fortified place · Medieval
Borthwick Castle
Midlothian
Borthwick Castle is an exceptionally complete 1430 Scottish tower house, associated with Mary, Queen of Scots and visibly marked by Cromwell’s 1650…
- Near Borthwick
Scotland · Region
Ancient places in Midlothian
7 places in Midlothian, from the deepest prehistory to the medieval world.
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Fortified place · Medieval
Crichton Castle
Midlothian
Crichton Castle preserves the rise and fall of two powerful Scottish families, a Reformation (the sixteenth-century closure of the monasteries)-era…
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Fortified place · Roman
Elginhaugh
Midlothian
Elginhaugh is the Roman Empire’s most completely excavated timber-built auxiliary fort, offering rare evidence for a short Flavian occupation, mixe…
- Near Dalkeith
- Some walking
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Sacred place · Medieval
Newbattle Abbey
Midlothian
Newbattle Abbey links Cistercian settlement, early Scottish coal extraction, repeated Anglo-Scottish conflict, Reformation (the break with Rome tha…
- Near Dalkeith
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Fortified place · Medieval
Roslin Castle
Midlothian
Roslin Castle combines the Sinclair family’s long medieval lordship, a rare Scots-prose manuscript connection, destructive episodes from the Rough…
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Sacred place · Medieval
Rosslyn Chapel
Midlothian
Rosslyn Chapel is a superbly carved fifteenth-century collegiate church (a church staffed by a college of priests, without being a monastery) whose…
More places in Midlothian
Briefer entries: recorded and worth knowing, with fuller pages to come.
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Fortified place · Iron Age
Castle Law
Midlothian
Castle Law is a scheduled Iron Age (the centuries before Rome arrived, from about 800 BC) hill fort in the Pentlands, preserving earthworks and a s…
- Near Edinburgh
- Some walking
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