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Traprain Law in East Lothian

Traprain Law Traprain Law is a hill 724 feet high, standing some 4 miles east of Haddington in East Lothian. It is the site of an ancient oppidum or hill fort, which covered at its maximum extent about 40 acres and must have been a veritable town. Whether it was a seasonal meeting place or permanent settlement is a matter for speculation. Excavations have shown it was occupied in the late Iron Age from about AD 40 through the last quarter of the 2nd century, and for two hundred years from about 220. The Romans recorded the local tribe as the Votadini as the British tribe, Y Gododdin of Old Welsh poetry. The capital of their kingdom is thought to have been on Traprain Law, before it was moving to Din Eidyn; Edinburgh's Castle Hill. (Read more)