Castle Rock & Medieval Burgh · event 8 of 8

1513

Flodden, and the wall. James IV and much of the Scottish nobility are killed in Northumberland. Edinburgh throws up the Flodden Wall in panic, and it fixes the town’s boundaries for 250 years — which is why the Old Town grows upward.

The Castle Rock & Medieval Burgh era

  1. c. 900 BC
  2. c. 600 AD
  3. 638
  4. c. 1130
  5. c. 1130
  6. 1314
  7. 1437
  8. 1513

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