"Edinburgh" earthwork, the HQ of the Scots army, lay in the island between the 2 roads leading to Kelham and Muskham and athwart the lane joining Kelham and Muskham bridges. Clampe's plan shows it as a large entrenched camp of bastion trace, approx 400ft square, with redans at the centre of the NE and SW sides and SW of centre on the other 2. The site is on flat land, formerly pasture but now ploughed. Only a fragment of the S bastion remains, NE of the Kelham Road (SK 78325500). The SW side of the bastion survives as a bank and ditch, 110ft long and 22ft wide overall; at most the bank is 1 2/3ft high and the ditch 6ins deep. (1)
Earthworks shown here. (2)
No traces of the extension perimeter of this site, as shown on the area map by (1), are now to be seen on the ground where a local high spot would have been enclosed. The previously surviving fragment of the S bastion has been levelled. (3)
See also L3030 and L2985.

Data Held (Document). SNT2647.

(1), Arch office

<1> RCHM, 1964, Newark on Trent - The Civil War Siegeworks, p 42 (Published document). SNT1176.

<2> OS, 1919, 1:2500, County Series 1919 (Map). SNT1028.

Other Refs: 30/15

<3> Seaman BH, 1974, Pers Comm (Personal comment). SNT1252.