Although technically in Bowhill, Newark Castle is outwith the grounds so is free to get to! It is also locked though so you can't get inside it, there are windows you can look in through (if you have a torch) but there's not much to see inside.
"In 1645 one hundred followers of the Marquis of Montrose, mostly women, captured after the Battle of Philiphaugh, were shot, stabbed, slashed or bludgeoned to death by Covenanters in the barmkin of Newark. The victims were buried near the castle, and in 1810 large quantities of bones and skulls were dug up at the field known as Slain Mens Lea.
It is said that ghostly cries and screams of anguish can sometimes by heard here. Other prisoners, again mostly women and children, were taken to the market place in Selkirk, and there later also shot. The mercy shown by men of God!" (from thecastlesofscotland.co.uk)
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