{"id":253,"date":"2007-08-17T15:54:00","date_gmt":"2007-08-17T15:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tudorhistory.org\/blog\/2007\/08\/17\/remains-of-medieval-tower-found-at-edinburgh-castle\/"},"modified":"2007-08-17T15:54:00","modified_gmt":"2007-08-17T15:54:00","slug":"remains-of-medieval-tower-found-at-edinburgh-castle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tudorhistory.org\/blog\/2007\/08\/17\/remains-of-medieval-tower-found-at-edinburgh-castle\/","title":{"rendered":"Remains of medieval tower found at Edinburgh Castle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From The Scotsman:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Archaeologists have unearthed the remains of a medieval tower at Edinburgh Castle thought to have been lost forever.<\/p>\n<p>Fragments of Constable&#8217;s Tower, which was destroyed by Elizabeth I&#8217;s army during a siege, were found during excavation work for the attraction&#8217;s new visitor centre. <\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>The Constable&#8217;s Tower was built during the reign of Robert II and was the home of the castle&#8217;s constable &#8211; a powerful position appointed by the king to watch over and maintain the fortress in his absence. It was finally destroyed in 1573, after an epic siege which saw the castle garrison led by Sir William Kirkcaldy of Grange hold out against Scottish forces loyal to the infant James VI.<\/p>\n<p>After Elizabeth I sent troops and cannons to bombard the castle, the tower was destroyed and later replaced with its current portcullis gate facade.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.scotsman.com\/scotland.cfm?id=1274532007\" target=\"new\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Full article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From The Scotsman: Archaeologists have unearthed the remains of a medieval tower at Edinburgh Castle thought to have been lost forever. Fragments of Constable&#8217;s Tower, which was destroyed by Elizabeth I&#8217;s army during a siege, were found during excavation work for the attraction&#8217;s new visitor centre. &#8230; The Constable&#8217;s Tower&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"continue-reading-button\"> <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/tudorhistory.org\/blog\/2007\/08\/17\/remains-of-medieval-tower-found-at-edinburgh-castle\/\">Continue reading<i class=\"crycon-right-dir\"><\/i><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-253","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archaeology-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tudorhistory.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tudorhistory.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tudorhistory.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tudorhistory.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tudorhistory.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=253"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tudorhistory.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tudorhistory.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tudorhistory.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tudorhistory.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}