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Claycrop

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

History & Significance

Claycrop 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 Claycrop lies on Hawick Group, bedrock that formed in the Wenlock. 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
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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 Claycrop

Tracked target range, 500m S of Crook of Baldoon
Tracked target range, 500m S of Crook of Baldoon
Scheduled monument · ~2.4 mi

Tracked target range 500m south of Crook of Baldoon is a twentieth-century military training facility located in Wigtownshire, south-west Scotland. The site lies on bedrock of the Hawick Group, a sequence of hard wacke sandstones formed during the Wenlock period of the Silurian. This geology has…

Wigtown Castle
Wigtown Castle
Scheduled monument · ~3.2 mi

Wigtown Castle is a motte-and-bailey fortification located in Wigtownshire, south-west Scotland, dating to the Norman period following the twelfth-century establishment of Anglo-Norman authority in the region. The castle comprises an earthen mound with an associated bailey, representing a typical…

Torhouse Stone Circle
Torhouse Stone Circle
Scheduled monument · ~4.3 mi

Torhouse Stone Circle is a Bronze Age monument located near Wigtown in Wigtownshire, south-west Scotland. The circle comprises nineteen standing stones arranged in a roughly circular setting, with an estimated diameter of approximately 21 metres. Dating to the Bronze Age, likely between 2000 and…

Torhousekie, fort
Torhousekie, fort
Scheduled monument · Iron Age · ~4.5 mi

Torhousekie is a Iron Age fort located in Wigtownshire in south-western Scotland. The site comprises a hillfort with defensive earthworks characteristic of the Iron Age period, though its precise chronology within that era remains subject to archaeological interpretation. The fort's location and…

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Eggerness,carved stones 750m SW of
Eggerness,carved stones 750m SW of
Scheduled monument · ~4.9 mi

Eggerness carved stones is a Neolithic or Bronze Age rock art site located in Wigtownshire, south-west Scotland. The monument comprises carved stones situated approximately 750 metres south-west of Eggerness. The site is protected by Historic Environment Scotland under reference SM4678. The stone…

Garlieston, Mulberry harbour remains 2070m ENE, 1035m E and 1860m S of
Garlieston, Mulberry harbour remains 2070m ENE, 1035m E and 1860m S of
Scheduled monument · ~5.2 mi

Garlieston Mulberry Harbour Remains is a Second World War artificial harbour installation located in Wigtownshire, south-western Scotland. The site comprises scattered remains of the Mulberry harbour system, with structural elements distributed across the coastal landscape at varying distances fr…

Ring Hill, fort
Scheduled monument · Iron Age · ~1.5 miles
Doonhill,fort
Scheduled monument · Iron Age · ~2.1 miles
In the same landscape

Battles near Claycrop

Wigtown, Baldoon Airfield, Battle H.Q.
~2.1 miles away
Dowalton Farm
~3 miles away
Bloody Moss Plantation
~3.8 miles away
Whithorn
~6.7 miles away
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