Historic Scotland & National Trust for Scotland places in East Lothian

One of Scotland's best-preserved Iron Age hillforts, ringed by six grassy ramparts up to five metres high, in farmland near Drem, East Lothian; free, open at all times, a short walk and a stile from a small car park.

One of Scotland's oldest strongholds, a 13th-century castle of drum towers with a great hall, pit prison, doocot and the world's longest herbaceous border; adult £4.50 while works continue, half price in the first EH year.

The outlines of two great timber halls about 6,000 years old, marked in coloured concrete on a hilltop south of Dunbar with views over the East Lothian coast; free, open at all times, through a field gate.

A cross-shaped collegiate church of the 1440s with its stone-slabbed roof and carved angel musicians, in the Dunglass Estate near Cockburnspath; free, open at all times except wedding days in July.

Fortified manor of the 1200s in the River Tyne valley near East Linton, later the Hepburn stronghold where Bothwell and Mary, Queen of Scots stayed in 1567; free, open all year with parts closed for conservation, very limited parking.

The medieval sacristy of St Mary's Church, Haddington, now the Maitland burial aisle with a fine marble monument of the 1600s to James VI's Lord Chancellor; free, seen when the church is open, May to September.

A rare medieval market cross of about 1450, its shaft cut from a single stone, in the main street of Ormiston's 1730s planned village near Tranent; free and open at all times.

A market cross of 1617 with a gaol in its base and a unicorn on its 6 m shaft, the only one of its kind on its original site, beside Preston Road in Prestonpans; free and open at all times.

One of Scotland's finest medieval collegiate churches, founded by the Lords Seton in 1470, among trees near Longniddry; open April to September on Thursdays and Fridays, adult £8.50, half price in the first EH year.

A rare parish church of the 1100s, now a roofless Romanesque ruin in Haddington's Nungate, where John Knox may have worshipped as a boy; free, open at all times, street parking.

The Red Douglases' last great medieval castle, a massive 14th-century red sandstone curtain wall on a North Sea cliff with views to the Bass Rock, battered by Cromwell in 1651; adult £8.50, £7.50 online, half price in the first EH year.

Walled hillside garden near Musselburgh with scented borders above, wild meadows and dipping ponds below, and a fairy house trail for children.

James Smith's Palladian villa of 1686, conserved as time left it, with Enlightenment history, woodland walks, a stables cafe and the Weehailes playpark.

East Lothian's last working watermill, with its conical kiln roof, Outlander fame and a riverside walk to a 16th-century beehive doocot.