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Early Medieval

Viking Assault and Battle of Forteviot 839

839
Scotland
Era
Early Medieval
Battle Type
Pitched Battle
Location
Scotland
Status
Unregistered
The Combatants

Who Fought

Defeated
Pictish and Dalriadan forces
Forces
combined Pictish and Dalriadan royal host under Eoganan
VS
Victor
Norse great army
Forces
Norse great army
Outcome
Catastrophic Pictish defeat; king and royal family killed; Viking plundering of Pictland
The Battle

History & Significance

Norse great army annihilated the Pictish royal army at Forteviot; the Annals of Ulster record the deaths of Pictish King Eoganan mac Oengus, his brother, and the Dalriadan king — the greatest disaster in Pictish history and the event that enabled Kenneth MacAlpin

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Protected heritage nearby

Scheduled Monuments near Viking Assault and Battle of Forteviot 839

Leadketty, enclosures, ring-ditches, square barrow & pits 600m NW of
Scheduled monument · Post-Medieval · ~0.7 miles
Enclosed settlement and roundhouse 220m WSW of Inverdunning House
Scheduled monument · ~0.8 miles
Timber circle and pit circle, 460m ESE of Leadketty Farm
Scheduled monument · ~0.9 miles
Pit Alignment, 160m SE of Wellhill House
Scheduled monument · ~1 miles
Ring ditch and pit group, 180m ENE of Wellhill House
Scheduled monument · ~1 miles
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