Project Updates

White Castle (NMRS NT66NW 1) is a Scheduled Ancient Monument (SM no 756)

White Castle was first identified in John Thomson’s 1832 map of Haddingtonshire, where it is depicted as a simple circle. The site is next illustrated on the 1855 Ordnance Survey 1:10560 map of Haddington, where the plan comprises three circular banks. The first detailed plan of the site is the 1894 Ordnance Survey, this illustration captures the majority of White Castle’s detail, and is very similar to the subsequent Royal Commission on Ancient and Historic Monuments of Scotland (RCAHMS ) depiction of 1914. This survey identified three internal features: two between Ramparts 1 and 2 on the western side and a third on the southern side overlying Rampart 1, but no other internal features.

Prior to the Rampart Scotland works White Castle was described by the RCAHMS as oval in plan and measuring internally c 70m by 55m, with three banks and at least two ditches and two sets of entrances, one to the south-east and one to the south-west and an unknown level of internal settlement.

The RCAHMS site record can be found here:  NT66NW 1
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