When did Barr Hill take place?

Barr Hill took place in an uncertain year, Scotland.

The victor at Barr Hill is disputed or unrecorded in the surviving sources.

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Barr Hill

Scotland

Era

Unknown Era

Battle Type

Pitched Battle

Location

Scotland

Status

Unregistered

The Battle

History & Significance

Barr Hill 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 Barr Hill lies on Gala Group, bedrock that formed in the Telychian. The rock here is wacke.

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Monuments

The legally protected scheduled monuments around the location, each with its period, type and significance.

Battlefields

The battles and sieges fought on this ground, mapped and set on a timeline of the wider conflict.

Roman Britain

The Roman roads, forts and towns near here, and the Iron Age people who held the land before Rome arrived.

Stat Accounts

The parish Statistical Accounts of the 1790s and 1830s, describing life, work and population here.

Civil War

The Civil War fighting, garrisons and recorded militaria in this area, woven into the arc of 1642 to 1651.

Geology

The bedrock beneath the site, its age and rock type, reaching back hundreds of millions of years.

Local Names

What the street and field names around here actually mean, and the history buried inside them.

Historical Maps

Ordnance Survey maps from the 1800s, layered over the location as it stands today.

Literature

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Legal

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Protected heritage nearby

Scheduled Monuments near Barr Hill

Tynron Doon,fort

Scheduled monument · Iron Age · ~1.5 mi

Tynron Doon is an Iron Age fort situated in Dumfriesshire, south-west Scotland. The fort occupies a naturally prominent position above the Shinnel Water, with bedrock composed of the wacke deposits of the Ashgill Shinnel and Glenlee Formations. This geology would have provided a stable foundation…

Kirkland,church

Scheduled monument · Medieval · ~1.8 mi

Kirkland Church is a medieval church situated in Dumfriesshire, Scotland. The building stands upon bedrock of the Gala Group, a formation of wacke laid down during the Telychian geological period. This solid foundation of coarse sandstone and siltstone provided secure ground for the construction…

Tibbers Castle

Scheduled monument · ~4.2 mi

Tibbers Castle is a motte-and-bailey fortification situated in Dumfriesshire, Scotland, dating to the Norman period of the twelfth century. The castle consists of a substantial earthwork mound topped by a timber or stone palisade, typical of early medieval military architecture, with an associate…

Drumlanrig, Roman fort and annexe 400m SE of Drumlanrig Castle

Scheduled monument · Iron Age · ~4.4 mi

Drumlanrig Roman fort and annexe is a Roman auxiliary fort located approximately 400 metres south-east of Drumlanrig Castle in Dumfriesshire, Scotland. The site dates to the Roman occupation period, likely established during the campaigns of the first and second centuries AD as part of Rome's mil…

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Brockloch,farmstead and field system 1000m WNW of Fraserford

Scheduled monument · Post-Medieval · ~5.2 mi

Brockloch is a post-medieval farmstead and field system located one kilometre west-north-west of Fraserford in Dumfriesshire, south-western Scotland. The site occupies land underlain by Gala Group bedrock of Telychian age, a hard wacke formation characteristic of the Southern Uplands geology of t…

Moat,enclosure 300m NW of

Scheduled monument · Post-Medieval · ~5.3 mi

Moat, enclosure 300m NW of — is a post-medieval earthwork situated in Dumfriesshire, Scotland. The monument comprises a defended enclosure constructed on bedrock of the Gala Group, a formation of wacke stone laid down during the Telychian period of the Silurian. This geological setting is charact…

Capenoch Loch,long cairn

Scheduled monument · Neolithic · ~0.4 miles

Maxwelton,motte

Scheduled monument · Medieval · ~1.8 miles

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Barr Hill · Canmore

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