Malcolm III of Scotland mounted his third major raid into northern England in 1091, reaching as far south as Durham before William Rufus and Robert Curthose united to mount a counter-expedition. The raid demonstrated that Scottish pressure on northern England was unrelenting and that the Rufus government had not yet solved the strategic problem of the Scottish border despite the building of Newcastle upon Tyne a decade earlier.
Aubrey generates in-depth historical research for any location in Britain — drawing on Domesday records, scheduled monuments, Victorian OS maps, geological data and archaeological archives to tell the full story of a place.
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