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Blair Hussey

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

History & Significance

Blair Hussey 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 Blair Hussey lies on Argyll Group, bedrock that formed in the Neoproterozoic. The rock here is psammite, semipelite and pelite.

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Roman Britain
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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.
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Scheduled Monuments near Blair Hussey

Hogholm Cottage, hut circle 120m SW of
Hogholm Cottage, hut circle 120m SW of
Scheduled monument · ~1 mi

Hogholm Cottage hut circle is a prehistoric domestic settlement located in Aberdeenshire, Scotland, situated 120 metres south-west of Hogholm Cottage itself. The monument is a hut circle, representing the remains of a roundhouse that would have served as a dwelling during the Bronze Age or Iron A…

Larrick, cairn 435m NW of
Larrick, cairn 435m NW of
Scheduled monument · ~1.5 mi

Larrick Cairn is a Bronze Age burial monument situated in Aberdeenshire, Scotland, approximately 435 metres north-west of Larrick. The cairn was constructed on bedrock belonging to the Argyll Group, a Neoproterozoic-age metamorphic sequence comprising psammite, semipelite and pelite. These ancien…

Larrick, hut circle 60m NNW of
Larrick, hut circle 60m NNW of
Scheduled monument · ~1.6 mi

Larrick hut circle is a prehistoric domestic structure located in Aberdeenshire, Scotland, situated approximately 60 metres north-north-west of a neighbouring hut circle. The monument sits on bedrock of the Argyll Group, which formed during the Neoproterozoic era and comprises psammite, semipelit…

Stoneyhill, cairn 195m WSW of
Stoneyhill, cairn 195m WSW of
Scheduled monument · ~1.7 mi

Stoneyhill is a cairn located in Aberdeenshire, Scotland, situated 195 metres west-south-west of the settlement from which it takes its name. The monument stands upon bedrock of Ordovician to Silurian age, specifically an unnamed felsic igneous intrusion emplaced during the Silurian period. This…

Valleyview, cairn 90m ENE of
Valleyview, cairn 90m ENE of
Scheduled monument · ~2.1 mi

Valleyview is a cairn situated in Aberdeenshire, north-east Scotland, protected as a scheduled monument by Historic Environment Scotland. The monument stands on bedrock formed by an unnamed igneous intrusion of Silurian age, composed of felsic rock that crystallised during the late Palaeozoic. Th…

Broomend, henge, avenue, symbol stone and square barrow, 160m NE, 70m E, 160m SSE and 255m SSE of Broom Lodge
Broomend, henge, avenue, symbol stone and square barrow, 160m NE, 70m E, 160m SSE and 255m SSE of Broom Lodge
Scheduled monument · Bronze Age · ~2.2 mi

Broomend is a Bronze Age ceremonial complex in Aberdeenshire comprising a henge, avenue, symbol stone and square barrow distributed across the landscape near Broom Lodge. The monuments sit upon bedrock of the Argyll Group, ancient psammite, semipelite and pelite formations dating to the Neoproter…

Peathill,standing stone 300m N of
Scheduled monument · Bronze Age · ~0.5 miles
Greenlands, hut circles and cairns 380m S of
Scheduled monument · ~1.2 miles
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Battles near Blair Hussey

Broomend of Crichie
~2.2 miles away
Kintore
~2.7 miles away
Battle of Inverurie (1745)
1745
~2.8 miles away
Battle of Barra
~4.2 miles away
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