Dunbar Castle East Lothian Scotland

Tour Scotland travel video of the ruins of Dunbar Castle on ancestry visit to East Lothian. This is the remnants of one of the most mighty fortresses in Scotland, situated over the harbour of the town of Dunbar. The castle was a central defensive position of the Kings of Bernicia, an Anglian kingdom that took over from the British Kingdom of Bryneich. During the Early Middle Ages, Dunbar Castle was held by an Ealdorman owing homage to either the Kings at Bamburgh Castle, or latterly the Kings of York. In 678 Saint Wilfrid was imprisoned at Dunbar, following his expulsion from his see of York by Ecgfrith of Northumbria. Later, Dunbar was said to have been burnt by Kenneth MacAlpin, King of the Scots.

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