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Capernaum

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

History & Significance

Capernaum 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 Capernaum lies on Strathclyde Group, bedrock that formed in the Visean. The rock here is sedimentary rock cycles, strathclyde group type.

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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.
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Scheduled Monuments near Capernaum

Avondale Castle
Avondale Castle
Scheduled monument · ~4.8 mi

Avondale Castle is a late medieval fortified stronghold located in South Lanarkshire, Scotland. The castle dates from the fifteenth century and represents the defensive architecture typical of the Scottish nobility during the later medieval period. The site preserves substantial remains of its st…

Glen Garr,cairn
Glen Garr,cairn
Scheduled monument · ~6.3 mi

Glen Garr cairn is a prehistoric funerary monument located in Ayrshire, Scotland. Constructed from stone gathered from the surrounding landscape, the cairn sits upon bedrock of Silurian mudstone, siltstone and sandstone, which would have offered abundant material for its construction. The monumen…

Polnoon Castle
Polnoon Castle
Scheduled monument · ~7.6 mi

Polnoon Castle is a ruined castle located in Renfrewshire, southwest Scotland. The site consists of the remains of a defensive structure that dates to the medieval period, though precise construction dates remain uncertain from the available archaeological record. The castle represents a modest f…

Dunwan Hill, fort
Dunwan Hill, fort
Scheduled monument · Iron Age · ~7.8 mi

Dunwan Hill is a fortified settlement of the Iron Age, situated in Renfrewshire, Scotland. The fort exploits the natural defensive properties of its location, built upon bedrock composed of Dinantian felsic lava and tuff—hard volcanic rocks formed during the Mississippian period. This geological…

Crooked Stone, standing stone 225m N of Crookedstone
Crooked Stone, standing stone 225m N of Crookedstone
Scheduled monument · Bronze Age · ~8.1 mi

Crooked Stone is a Bronze Age standing stone located in Lanarkshire, Scotland, situated approximately 225 metres north of the settlement of Crookedstone. The monument stands as testament to ritual and territorial practice during the Bronze Age, when such stones were erected across the Scottish la…

Regional War Room, 130m NW of Rankine Avenue, East Kilbride
Regional War Room, 130m NW of Rankine Avenue, East Kilbride
Scheduled monument · ~8.2 mi

Regional War Room is a scheduled monument located 130 metres north-west of Rankine Avenue in East Kilbride, Lanarkshire. The site is protected by Historic Environment Scotland under reference SM11068. The war room occupies ground underlain by bedrock of the Clackmannan Group, Westphalian sediment…

Dungavel Hill,cairn
Scheduled monument · ~3.8 miles
Burnbrae,barrow 170m NW of
Scheduled monument · ~4.8 miles
In the same landscape

Battles near Capernaum

Battle of Drumclog
1679
~0.6 miles away
Battle of Loudoun Hill
1307
~2.5 miles away
Loudoun Hill — Bruce Schiltron Formation 1307
1307
~2.6 miles away
Strathaven march, Scottish Radical War, 1820
1820
~4.7 miles away
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