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Bealach Nam Brog

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

History & Significance

Bealach Nam Brog 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 Bealach Nam Brog lies on Morar Group, bedrock that formed in the Neoproterozoic. The rock here is psammite.

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Geology
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Scheduled Monuments near Bealach Nam Brog

Little Garve Bridge, 80m E of Tigh Na Drochit
Little Garve Bridge, 80m E of Tigh Na Drochit
Scheduled monument · ~5.5 mi

Little Garve Bridge is a stone arch bridge located in Ross-shire, Scotland, situated approximately 80 metres east of Tigh na Drochit. The bridge is protected as a scheduled monument by Historic Environment Scotland under reference SM2720. The monument stands upon bedrock of the Morar Group, psamm…

Heights of Brae, chambered cairn 375m NNW of Firth View
Heights of Brae, chambered cairn 375m NNW of Firth View
Scheduled monument · Neolithic · ~8.3 mi

Heights of Brae is a Neolithic chambered cairn located in Ross-shire, standing 375 metres north-north-west of Firth View. Built during the Neolithic period, this stone monument represents one of Scotland's earliest substantial architectural achievements, constructed by farming communities who set…

Loch Kinellan,crannog
Loch Kinellan,crannog
Scheduled monument · Iron Age–Medieval · ~9 mi

Loch Kinellan crannog is an Iron Age to medieval settlement site constructed on the bed of a freshwater loch in Ross-shire. Crannogs were artificial or semi-artificial islands built from timber, stone and brushwood, providing defensive settlements and refuge in times of unrest. This example was c…

Carn Na Buaile fort, 780m NNW of Comrie
Carn Na Buaile fort, 780m NNW of Comrie
Scheduled monument · ~9.1 mi

Carn Na Buaile fort is a hillfort situated 780 metres north-north-west of Comrie in Ross-shire, in the northern Highlands of Scotland. The monument occupies ground underlain by psammite bedrock of the Loch Eil Group, a Neoproterozoic geological formation that gives this landscape its characterist…

Eileanach Lodge,settlement & field system 550m WSW of
Scheduled monument · Post-Medieval · ~7.5 miles
Firth View, settlement 1300m NW of
Scheduled monument · ~7.7 miles
Strath Sgitheach, settlement NW of Cnoc a'Mhuilinn
Scheduled monument · ~7.8 miles
Balnacrae, chambered cairn 230m WSW of
Scheduled monument · Neolithic · ~8 miles
In the same landscape

Battles near Bealach Nam Brog

Battle of Bealach nam Broig
1299
~0.2 miles away
Massacre of the Greenyards, Strathcarron 1854
1854
~6 miles away
Blar Nan Ceann
~9.1 miles away
Cnocan
~9.1 miles away
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