another garvald trail Traditional Cache
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a short trip from Garvald to Stoneypath Tower.
this cache is not in the churchyard its on the path running beside the water
Between Whittinghame Tower and Nunraw near Garvald, on a rough grassy ridge beside the Pappana water stands the rose colored ruin of Stoneypath Tower. Originally held by several great Scots families of note, the Dunbars, the Douglases on two occasions, the Lyles, the Hamiltons and eventually the Setons.
By late 1548 Stoneypath and several other towers were retaken by the Hamiltons under the Earl of Arran and 'assured Scots' such as Cockburn of Ormiston and Douglas of Longniddry had their homes slighted for their collaboration, although it's unclear whether or not Whittinghame Tower was slighted at this time. In 1611 George Lyle resigned Stoneypath to Alexander Hamilton of Innerwick Castle near Dunbar. By 1616 it had been passed to Archibald Douglas of Whittinghame, and eventually it passed on to the Seton Viscounts of Kingston with the Whittingehame dowry.
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