Traprain Law in East Lothian was the ancient capital of the Votadini / Gododdin people — a massive hill fort occupied for over a thousand years. Its fall to Northumbrian power in the early seventh century marked the final end of the Gododdin as an independent British kingdom in Lothian. The great Traprain Treasure — now in the National Museum of Scotland — was buried here, perhaps around this period of crisis.
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