Battle of Skitten was an early medieval pitched battle between opposing field armies, fought in the area of Caithness, Scotland in 944. Ljot Thorfinnsson, Earl of Orkney prevailed over Earl MacBeth, Mormaer of Moray (Scots). The Orkneyinga Saga records a short battle in which the surviving Scots fled, most of them wounded; Ljot was himself mortally wounded and later died of the wound.
The site of Battle of Skitten lies on Middle Old Red Sandstone (Undifferentiated), bedrock that formed in the Middle Devonian. The rock here is conglomerate, sandstone, siltstone and mudstone.
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