Following his victory over the English at Bannockburn four years earlier in a different context, Bruce's captains systematically raided Tynedale from 1311, making the valley essentially ungovernable by English authority for years. Tynedale's geography — deep and accessible from Scotland but remote from English garrisons — made it ideal for Scottish raiding. The 1311 raids were among the first of the great extortion operations that would characterise the Scottish treatment of northern England through the subsequent decade.
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