Alternative Names Queen Mary's Mount
Site type BATTLE SITE
Canmore ID 53373
Site Number NT36NE 5
NGR NT 373 695
Council EAST LOTHIAN
Parish INVERESK (EAST LOTHIAN)
Former Region LOTHIAN
Former District EAST LOTHIAN
Former County MIDLOTHIAN

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Archaeological Notes

NT36NE 5 373 695

See also NT36NE 6.

(Name: NT 375 696) Here Queen Mary surrendered to the Confederate Lords 15th June 1567 (NAT)
OS 6" map (1967)

At Carberry Hill, on a piece of ground known now as Queen Mary's Mount (Name NT 373 695), Mary, Queen of Scots surrendered to the Confederate Lords on the 15th June 1567 (and was subsequently imprisoned in Loch Leven Castle).
F H Groome 1901

Groome, F H (ed.) (1901) Ordnance gazetteer of Scotland, 5v Edinburgh
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