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Bloody Bush

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

History & Significance

Bloody Bush 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 Bloody Bush lies on Yoredale Group, bedrock that formed in the Bashkirian. The rock here is limestone, argillaceous rocks and subordinate sandstone, interbedded.

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Monuments
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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
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Historical Maps
Ordnance Survey maps from the 1800s, layered over the location as it stands today.
Literature
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Scheduled Monuments near Bloody Bush

Riccarton Tower
Riccarton Tower
Scheduled monument · ~3.4 mi

Riccarton Tower is a late medieval tower house located in Roxburghshire, in the Scottish Borders. The structure dates to the sixteenth century and represents the fortified domestic architecture typical of the Anglo-Scottish border region during a period of considerable military tension and raidin…

Liddel Castle,Newcastleton
Liddel Castle,Newcastleton
Scheduled monument · Medieval · ~3.9 mi

Liddel Castle is a medieval fortified site located near Newcastleton in Roxburghshire, on the border between Scotland and England. The castle comprises earthwork remains including a motte and bailey, evidence of its twelfth-century origins as a Norman defensive structure. The site occupies a stra…

Long Knowe,long cairn
Long Knowe,long cairn
Scheduled monument · Neolithic · ~4 mi

Long Knowe is a Neolithic long cairn situated in Roxburghshire, Scotland. The monument stands on bedrock of the Yoredale Group, geological formations dating from the Bashkirian period comprising limestone, argillaceous rocks and subordinate sandstone in interbedded sequences. This underlying geol…

Buck Stone, standing stone 470m NNE of Hermitage Farm Cottage
Buck Stone, standing stone 470m NNE of Hermitage Farm Cottage
Scheduled monument · Bronze Age · ~5.2 mi

Buck Stone is a Bronze Age standing stone located in Roxburghshire, in the Scottish Borders, standing 470 metres north-north-east of Hermitage Farm Cottage. It marks one of the numerous ritual and territorial monuments erected across the upland margins of southern Scotland during the Bronze Age,…

Ettleton Cemetery, tombstones
Ettleton Cemetery, tombstones
Scheduled monument · ~6.8 mi

Ettleton Cemetery is a burial ground in Roxburghshire, Scotland, designated as a scheduled monument under Historic Environment Scotland reference SM2188. The cemetery lies on bedrock of the Inverclyde Group, sedimentary rocks formed during the Osagean period, comprising sandstone, siltstone and m…

Kirk Hill,enclosure
Kirk Hill,enclosure
Scheduled monument · Post-Medieval · ~7.3 mi

Kirk Hill enclosure is a post-medieval enclosure situated in Roxburghshire, Scotland. The monument occupies land underlain by Dinantian extrusive rocks of Mississippian age, a geological foundation of mafic lava and tuff that would have shaped the terrain and drainage patterns available to its bu…

Scooped settlement, 1025m NW of Roughley
Scheduled monument · ~4.9 miles
Nine Stones, stone circle, Ninestone Rig
Scheduled monument · Bronze Age · ~5.1 miles
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Battles near Bloody Bush

Severan Reconstruction of Hadrian Wall 205-207 AD
205
~15.2 miles away
Constantius Chlorus's Campaign Against the Picts (305-306 AD)
305
~15.6 miles away
Birdoswald Fort Siege or Attack late 3rd century
270
~15.6 miles away
Attack on Birdoswald Fort
296
~16 miles away
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