In the year following the Battle of Carham, which definitively gave Scotland control of the lands between the Tweed and the Forth, Northumbrian resistance in Bernicia was reorganised under the local English lords who had survived the battle. The aftermath of Carham involved a series of small-scale English counter-raids north of the Tweed and Scottish counter-operations south of it, as the new border was being established through military fact rather than formal treaty. The process of border-making through the 1019 to 1025 period established the settlement that has, in broad terms, survived to the present day.
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