Editing Dunbar (section)

===Early history===
Dunbar was subsumed into Anglian [[Northumbria]] as that kingdom expanded in the 6th century and is believed to be synonymous with the Dynbaer of [[Eddius]] around 680, the first time that it appears in the written record.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/heritage-and-retro/heritage/dunbar-through-the-years-these-27-pictures-show-how-much-the-east-lothian-seaside-town-has-changed-since-the-1960s-3437773|title=Dunbar through the years: These 27 pictures show how much the East Lothian seaside town has changed since the 1960s|newspaper=The Scotsman|date=29 October 2021|access-date=9 October 2022}}</ref>

The 2003 archaeological excavation also found a cemetery comprising 32 long-[[cist]] burials. Cemeteries of this type date from the early Christian period (AD 4th–8th centuries) and have been found in several areas around Dunbar, including to the east of Spott roundabout and at the Dunbar swimming pool indicated a settlement existed during this time.<ref name=":0" />

The influential Northumbrian monk and scholar [[St Cuthbert]], born around 630, was probably from around Dunbar: while still a boy, and employed as a shepherd, one night he had a vision of the soul of [[Aidan of Lindisfarne|Saint Aidan]] being carried to heaven by angels and thereupon went to the monastery of [[Old Melrose]] and became a monk.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk/usbiography/c/stcuthbert.html|title=St Cuthbert|publisher=Undiscovered Scotland| access-date=9 October 2022}}</ref>

It was then a king's [[vill]] and prison to Bishop [[Wilfrid]]. As a royal holding of the kings of [[Northumbria]], the economy centred on the collecting of [[food render]]s and the administration of the northern (now Scottish) portion of that kingdom. It was the base of a senior royal official, a reeve (later [[sheriff]]).<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1a6Qw1R2lxoC&pg=PA318|title=Castle Park, Dunbar: Two Thousand Years on a Fortified Headland, Part 4|page=318|first1=David R. |last1=Perry|first2= Mark A. S. |last2=Blackburn|publisher=Society of Antiquaries of Scotland|year=2000|isbn=978-0903903165}}</ref>