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Barns Farm

Scotland
Era
Unknown Era
Battle Type
Pitched Battle
Location
Scotland
Status
Unregistered
The Battle

History & Significance

Barns Farm was a pitched battle between opposing field armies, fought in Scotland. Which side prevailed is not recorded in the surviving sources, and its outcome is not conclusively established in the historical record.

The ground

The ground they fought on

The site of Barns Farm lies on Clackmannan Group, bedrock that formed in the Westphalian. The rock here is sedimentary rock cycles, clackmannan group type.

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Roman Britain
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Stat Accounts
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Civil War
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Geology
The bedrock beneath the site, its age and rock type, reaching back hundreds of millions of years.
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Scheduled Monuments near Barns Farm

Braefoot Point, battery
Braefoot Point, battery
Scheduled monument · ~0.5 mi

Braefoot Point battery is a coastal gun battery located in Fife, Scotland, positioned to command and defend shipping lanes through the Firth of Forth. The site occupies ground underlain by rocks of the Clackmannan Group, carboniferous sedimentary formations that rise steeply in this coastal regio…

Charles Hill, Monks' Cave storehouse, military camp and battery
Charles Hill, Monks' Cave storehouse, military camp and battery
Scheduled monument · ~0.6 mi

Charles Hill is a monks' cave storehouse, military camp and battery located in Fife, Scotland. The site demonstrates multiple phases of use across distinct historical periods, from medieval monastic activity through to later military fortification. The monument is protected by Historic Environmen…

Aberdour Castle
Aberdour Castle
Scheduled monument · ~1.2 mi

Aberdour Castle is a medieval fortified residence located in Fife, Scotland, with origins in the 14th century and significant expansion during the 16th and 17th centuries. The castle comprises a substantial stone tower house, later additions including a range of domestic buildings arranged around…

Balbougie, enclosed settlement 310m NNE of
Balbougie, enclosed settlement 310m NNE of
Scheduled monument · ~2.3 mi

Balbougie is an enclosed settlement situated in Fife, Scotland, standing on bedrock formed from a Carboniferous to Permian mafic igneous intrusion. The dark volcanic rock underlying the site would have presented particular challenges to its builders, who would have needed to work with the natural…

Middlebank House, souterrain 370m ENE of
Middlebank House, souterrain 370m ENE of
Scheduled monument · Iron Age · ~2.9 mi

Middlebank House souterrain is an Iron Age underground stone-built structure situated 370 metres east-north-east of Middlebank House in Fife. The monument survives as a partially preserved passage chamber, typical of souterrains constructed during the later Iron Age across eastern Scotland. These…

Hound Point Battery, 150m W of Fishery Cottage
Hound Point Battery, 150m W of Fishery Cottage
Scheduled monument · ~3.3 mi

Hound Point Battery is a coastal defence fortification located on the sandstone cliffs west of Fishery Cottage in Linlithgowshire, Scotland. The battery was constructed on Early Carboniferous bedrock, a natural foundation of pale sandstone interbedded with siltstone, claystone and limestone that…

Mick Garratt / CC BY-SA 2.0 / Wikimedia Commons
St Bridget's Kirk
Scheduled monument · ~0.6 miles
Aberdour Lodge,standing stone 110m SW of
Scheduled monument · Bronze Age · ~1.2 miles
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