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WHITTINGHAME.] HISTORICAL MONUMENTS (SCOTLAND) COMMISSION. [WHITTINGHAME.

with sides varying from 20 inches to 22 inches
in breadth. It has a slight slant to the south.

vi. S.W. 24 June 1913.

207. Kitchen Midden, Auldhame.-Immedi-
ately to the west of the old house of Auldhame,
on the eastern side of the wall separating the
plantation from the field, is a mediæval
kitchen midden. Many limpet and whelk
shells are seen lying about, and several frag-
ments of green glazed pottery have been
found on the site.

iii. S.W. (unnoted). 12 November 1913.

208. St. Baldred's Cave.-Within 100 yards
of and 25 feet above the high water mark
between the Gegan Rock and Seacliff, stands
a rocky cliff, at the foot of which, facing east,
is a cave, 23 feet broad and 15 feet high at
the mouth, running in a westerly direction for
a distance of 20 feet into the rock, the sides
and roof gradually converging. In the mouth
of the cave, slightly beyond the line of the
rock, is a squat pear-shaped mass of rock,
flat on the top and packed with large stones
at the base, standing about 3 feet above the
floor of the cave. It measures 5 feet in height,
is 20 feet in girth at its widest part, and 5 feet
5 inches by 4 feet 6 inches across the top.
(See Archæologia Scotica, vol. iv.).

iii. S.W. 12 November 1913.

209. St. Baldred's Well, Auldhame.-This
well is situated about 300 yards north-west of
Auldhame.

iii. S.W. 12 November 1913.

SITES.

The O.S. maps indicate the following sites:-

210. Graveyard near Auldhame. iii. S.W.

211. Our Lady's Well (supposed Site)
Whitekirk. vi. N.W.

WHITTINGHAME.

ECCLESIASTICAL STRUCTURE.

212. Papple " Convent "-The O.S. marks
"Papple Convent, Remains of" some 50 yards

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south of Papple farm house, which lies 1 mile
north of Garvald. On the site is a ruinous wall
some 20 to 25 feet in height, 15 feet long and
3 feet in thickness. The traditional name
suggests the situation of the toft and garden
with eleven acres of land in territorio de Popill
gifted by Patrick, son of Roger de Popill to the
nunnery at Haddington and enumerated in the
list of its possessions in 1458.1

1 R.M.S. s.a. No. 610.

xi. S.W. 21 August 1913.

CASTELLATED AND DOMESTIC STRUCTURES.

213. Whittinghame Castle.-Whittinghame
Castle, a late 15th or early 16th century tower
(fig. 18), stands about 1/4 of a mile south-south-

[illustration inserted]
FIG. 172.-Whittinghame Tower (No. 213).

west of the modern mansion of Whittinghame
on the opposite bank of the wooded ravine
through which flows the Whittinghame Water.
The building stands some 33 yards back from
the edge of this ravine, which forms a natural
defence and boundary on the east. On plan the
structure is L-shaped (fig. 172); the main block
contains the apartments and measures ex-
ternally 30 1/2 feet by 24 feet, while the wing
13 feet by 14 feet, projects, not from a lateral
wall as is usual, but from the north gable and
contains the entrance and the staircase, which
is rectangular on the lower flights and circular
above. There are three storeys beneath
the wall head, which terminates in a corbel
course surmounted by a walk with a crenellated
parapet, which returns round the whole building.
A garret over the main block is entered from
the parapet walk.
The entrance (fig. 44) to the building is in the
north wall of the staircase wing and not in the
re-entering angle. On the jambs and lintel of