Stone of Morphie near Montrose on the Angus coast was the scene of a skirmish between Jacobite cavalry covering the collapse of the 1715 rising and government advance cavalry in February 1716. As the Jacobite army disintegrated and leaders fled or submitted, small cavalry engagements occurred on the coastal roads of Angus as government forces pressed north to occupy the territory abandoned by the Jacobites. The Stone of Morphie itself is a prehistoric standing stone in the coastal farmland between Montrose and Stonehaven — the road through this area was the main route between the Jacobite-held northeast and Montrose harbour.
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