When did Blackburn take place?

Blackburn took place in an uncertain year, Scotland.

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

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Blackburn

Scotland

Era

Unknown Era

Battle Type

Pitched Battle

Location

Scotland

Status

Unregistered

The Battle

History & Significance

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

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Everything a full report reveals about Blackburn

This page covers Blackburn. A full Aubrey report for the area pulls together this battle alongside scheduled monuments and everything else the record holds within a few miles:

Overview

An interactive map of the location with every monument and battle plotted, and a plain-language history built only from what the record holds.

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

The books, county histories, charters and archives that mention this place, quoted with their sources.

Legal

The protected sites nearby and the metal-detecting, access and treasure laws that apply to this ground.

Spotlight

A deep dive into the most remarkable, lesser-known history of the place, traced back to the record.

Target Zones

For detectorists: the most promising ground to search nearby, ranked by confidence, with what to expect.

Timeline

The whole story of the location told era by era, from prehistory to the present day.

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Protected heritage nearby

Scheduled Monuments near Blackburn

Bathgate Castle

Scheduled monument · ~1.9 mi

Bathgate Castle is a fortified residence of medieval origin located in Bathgate, West Lothian. The castle survives as fragmentary remains, principally comprising sections of curtain wall and structural foundations that attest to its former defensive and residential function. It dates from the med…

Five Sisters,shale bing SE of Mid Breich

Scheduled monument · ~1.9 mi

Five Sisters is a shale bing located south-east of Mid Breich in Linlithgowshire, Scotland. Shale bings are artificial hills created as waste heaps during the intensive Scottish shale oil industry of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, when local deposits were worked for their mineral oil con…

Kirkton,old parish church 400m ESE of Kirkton Mains,Bathgate

Scheduled monument · Medieval · ~2.1 mi

Kirkton Old Parish Church is a medieval parish church situated 400 metres east-south-east of Kirkton Mains near Bathgate in Linlithgowshire. The building stands on bedrock of Dinantian extrusive rocks, ancient mafic lava and tuff deposits formed during the Mississippian period, which characterise…

Old West Calder Church, West Calder

Scheduled monument · ~2.6 mi

Old West Calder Church is a parish church situated in Midlothian, Scotland, in an area underlain by sedimentary rocks of the Strathclyde Group dating to the Visean period. The church stands protected as a scheduled monument by Historic Environment Scotland under reference SM7254, reflecting its s…

Gala Braes,standing stone

Scheduled monument · Bronze Age · ~3 mi

Gala Braes is a Bronze Age standing stone located in Linlithgowshire, Scotland. The monument rises from bedrock composed of Dinantian extrusive rocks, mafic lavas and tuffs formed during the Mississippian period. This geological setting, where volcanic stone meets upright stone, would have been f…

Raven Craig, cairn

Scheduled monument · ~3.5 mi

Raven Craig is a cairn located in Linlithgowshire, Scotland. Constructed from stone heaped over a burial or ceremonial purpose, this monument belongs to a tradition of cairn-building that spans thousands of years of Scottish prehistory. The site sits upon bedrock composed of mafic lava and tuff f…

Woodmuir Farm, coke ovens and reservoir 600m SSE of

Scheduled monument · ~3.3 miles

Castlethorn, fort and standing stones 500m ESE of Torphichen Mains

Scheduled monument · Bronze Age · ~4.6 miles

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Sources

Blackburn · Canmore

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