MacKintosh cattle raids into Aberdeenshire brought them into repeated conflict with the Gordons who dominated the region. This skirmish near the hill of Bennachie (Benachie) in the Don valley was one of several such encounters. The Gordons' power in Aberdeenshire was sufficiently established by this period that they could routinely suppress such incursions.
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