The Great Scottish trading ports - Berwick, an important Scottish trading port

This map shows the location of Berwick, Scotland's most important royal burgh and trading port before 1300. Situated at the lowest crossing point of the River Tweed, Berwick dominated trade in the south east.

Scotland's major export at this time was wool and hides. Berwick

was well placed to receive wool from the vast sheep ranches in the Border uplands. All kinds of foreign goods came into the country via Berwick - cloth from Flanders, French wine, Baltic timber and spices from the Orient.

Foreign merchants settled in the burgh. Berwick had a

number of halls owned by foreign traders. The Flemings, for example, had a trading post in the Red Hall.