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Dunbar Castle was one of the strongest fortresses in Scotland, situated in a prominent position overlooking the harbour of the town of Dunbar, in East Lothian. Several fortifications were built successively on the site, near the English-Scottish border.
Antoine was made Deputy Governor and Warden of Scottish Marches, and was the keeper of Dunbar Castle. On 25 April 1517 he was made the King's Lieutenant between the Merse and Lothian. [7] At Dunbar and at Edinburgh Castle, he was involved in the design and construction of artillery fortifications. [8] He had a company of 40 spearmen.
Dunbar (/ d ʌ n ˈ b ɑːr / ⓘ) is a town on the North Sea coast in East Lothian in the south-east of Scotland, approximately 30 miles (50 kilometres) east of Edinburgh and 30 mi (50 km) from the English border north of Berwick-upon-Tweed. Dunbar is a former royal burgh, and gave its name to an ecclesiastical and civil parish.
The scheme for classifying buildings in Scotland is: Category A: "buildings of national or international importance, either architectural or historic; or fine, little-altered examples of some particular period, style or building type."
In April 1497 he was at Dunbar Castle and was paid £10 Scots as an installment for his work on the gatehouse or "fore work". [8] In June he completed the "pending", perhaps the vaulting, of the hall at Dunbar, and the masonry of the "Hannis tower", which was roofed by William Young and Tom Mackachane. [9]
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[13] [14] It is unlikely that Dunbar remained to fight after the first arrows reached them. [15] In 1355 with William, Lord of Douglas and Sir William Ramsay of Dalhousie, the Earl of Dunbar again invaded Northumberland, and subsequently recovered Berwick-upon-Tweed, although not the castle. In 1357 he was one of the Scottish ambassadors who ...