When did Blue Cairn, Hound Rig take place?

Blue Cairn, Hound Rig took place in an uncertain year, Scotland.

Who won Blue Cairn, Hound Rig?

The victor at Blue Cairn, Hound Rig is disputed or unrecorded in the surviving sources.

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Unknown Era

Blue Cairn, Hound Rig

Scotland

Era

Unknown Era

Battle Type

Pitched Battle

Location

Scotland

Status

Unregistered

The Battle

History & Significance

Blue Cairn, Hound Rig 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 Blue Cairn, Hound Rig lies on Gala Group, bedrock that formed in the Telychian. The rock here is wacke.

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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

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

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Protected heritage nearby

Scheduled Monuments near Blue Cairn, Hound Rig

Kinnelhead Tower, fortified farmstead & cross incised stones

Scheduled monument · Iron Age · ~2.4 mi

Kinnelhead Tower is a fortified farmstead situated in Dumfriesshire, south-west Scotland. The monument comprises the remains of an Iron Age defended settlement together with cross incised stones, surviving features typical of fortified domestic occupation during the pre-Roman Iron Age period. The…

Rectilinear enclosure, 1070m SSW of Barntimpen

Scheduled monument · ~3 mi

Rectilinear enclosure 1070m SSW of Barntimpen is a prehistoric or Roman-period defended settlement located in Dumfriesshire, south-western Scotland. The monument consists of a rectangular plan enclosed by banks and ditches, a form typical of settlements and administrative sites dating from the Ir…

Park Hill, fort

Scheduled monument · Iron Age · ~3.2 mi

Park Hill fort is an Iron Age hillfort located in Dumfriesshire, Scotland. The monument sits upon bedrock of the Hawick Group, a formation of wacke dating to the Wenlock period, which provides the underlying geology of this southern Scottish landscape. The site is protected by Historic Environmen…

Plewlands, scooped settlement and farmstead 485m SW of

Scheduled monument · Post-Medieval · ~3.5 mi

Plewlands is a post-medieval scooped settlement and farmstead located in Dumfriesshire, south-west Scotland. The monument comprises a settlement whose structures were built into the slope of the landscape, creating characteristic scooped or sunken features. This building technique, whereby dwelli…

Boreland Tower

Scheduled monument · ~3.8 mi

Boreland Tower is a fifteenth-century tower house situated in Dumfriesshire, Scotland. The structure represents the defensive domestic architecture characteristic of the Scottish Borders during the late medieval period, when fortified residences served both protective and residential functions fo…

Raehills, scooped settlement 650m NE of

Scheduled monument · ~4.2 mi

Raehills is a scooped settlement situated 650 metres north-east of Raehills in Dumfriesshire, Scottish Borders. The site comprises shallow depressions and platforms cut into the hillside, characteristic of medieval or later prehistoric domestic occupation. These earthworks represent the remains o…

Lochanhead, cairn 530m WNW of

Scheduled monument · ~1.4 miles

Stiddrig Cairn, long cairn and cairn

Scheduled monument · Neolithic · ~2 miles

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Blue Cairn, Hound Rig · Canmore

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