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Wark Castle
Wark on Tweed lies about 3.5 miles south-west of the border town of Coldstream. Today, it is a small, quiet village
of just a few houses situated next to the River Tweed. However, Wark wasn't always so peaceful; throughout most of
the medieval period it was home to one of the most strategically important castles in the country and the scene of
frequent skirmishes and sieges.
The castle itself, originally built in the early 12th century, had a long and complex sequence of development,
culminating in the construction of an artillery fortress during the reign of Henry VIII. Very little excavation has
been carried out at Wark; most of our information has come from historic accounts and plans and from detailed surveys
undertaken in the 1990s, most of this relates to the later phases of the castle.
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