Editing Dunbar (section)

=== Pre-history ===
Excavations in advance of a housing development by CFA Archaeology, in 2003, found the remains of a later [[Bronze Age Britain|Bronze Age]]/[[early Iron Age]] (800–540 BC) person, indicating that people were living in the area during that time.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|title=Vol 50 (2011): A Rural Medieval Settlement and Early Iron Age Funerary Remains at Hallhill, Dunbar, East Lothian {{!}} Scottish Archaeological Internet Reports|url=http://journals.socantscot.org/index.php/sair/issue/view/80|access-date=2021-08-22|website=journals.socantscot.org}}</ref>

To the north of the present High Street an area of open ground called Castle Park preserves almost exactly the hidden perimeter of an [[Iron Age]] [[promontory fort]].{{sfn|Historic Environment Scotland}} The early settlement was a principal centre of the people known to the Romans as [[Votadini]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://el4.org.uk/county/revisiting-the-past/the-archaeology-of-east-lothian/early-historic-settlements/|title=Early historic settlements: the example of Castle Park, Dunbar|date=16 April 2018 |publisher=The Fourth Statistical Account of East Lothian|access-date=9 October 2022}}</ref>