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'Comrie'

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

History & Significance

'Comrie' 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 'Comrie' lies on Southern Highland Group, bedrock that formed in the Middle Cambrian. The rock here is pelite.

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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 'Comrie'

Cultybraggan camp, burial mounds 150m to 350m N of
Cultybraggan camp, burial mounds 150m to 350m N of
Scheduled monument · ~1 mi

Cultybraggan camp burial mounds is a Neolithic or Bronze Age funerary monument located in Perthshire, Scotland, situated 150 to 350 metres north of Cultybraggan camp. The mounds represent evidence of prehistoric burial practice in the region, though their precise dating and cultural association r…

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Auchingarrich Farm, standing stone, Comrie
Auchingarrich Farm, standing stone, Comrie
Scheduled monument · Bronze Age · ~1.8 mi

Auchingarrich Farm Standing Stone is a Bronze Age monument located near Comrie in Perthshire, Scotland. The stone stands upon bedrock belonging to the Arbuthnott-Garvock Group, a geological formation of Pragian age comprising sandstone interspersed with bands of conglomerate, siltstone and mudsto…

Balmuick,stone circle 1600m ENE of
Balmuick,stone circle 1600m ENE of
Scheduled monument · Bronze Age · ~2.1 mi

Balmuick is a bronze age stone circle situated 1600 metres east-north-east of a substantial settlement in Perthshire, Scotland. The monument stands upon bedrock formed during the Early Devonian period, part of an unnamed mafic igneous intrusion that underlies this landscape and dates to the Late…

Torlum,cairn
Torlum,cairn
Scheduled monument · ~3.5 mi

Torlum is a cairn, a funerary monument of stone constructed during the Bronze Age, situated in Perthshire in central Scotland. The cairn lies upon bedrock of the Strathmore Group, sandstone formations interspersed with conglomerate, siltstone and mudstone that date to the Emsian period of the Ear…

Lagg, ring-ditch 200m NW of
Lagg, ring-ditch 200m NW of
Scheduled monument · ~5.5 mi

Lagg ring-ditch is a prehistoric ceremonial monument located in Perthshire, Scotland, situated approximately 200 metres north-west of Lagg. The site consists of a circular ditch which once enclosed a timber or earthwork structure, a form common to Bronze Age ritual landscapes across Britain. Ring…

Lagg, square barrow and cropmarks 250m NNW of
Lagg, square barrow and cropmarks 250m NNW of
Scheduled monument · ~5.5 mi

Lagg is a square barrow and cropmarks situated 250 metres north-north-west of Lagg in Perthshire, Scotland. The monument consists of a square ditched barrow, a burial structure characteristic of the Early Bronze Age, revealed principally through cropmark evidence in the surrounding landscape. Suc…

Dunmoid,stone circle 350m NW of Muirend
Scheduled monument · Bronze Age · ~0.8 miles
Dalginross,Roman fort, annexe, camp & stone circle 200m S of Penfillan
Scheduled monument · Bronze Age · ~0.9 miles
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Battles near 'Comrie'

Battle of Stirling (1648)
1648
~17.5 miles away
Stirling Bridge: South-bank English Rout, 1297
1297
~17.7 miles away
Siege of Stirling Castle (1304)
1304
~17.7 miles away
Stirling burgh action — Douglas vs Crichton 1444
1444
~17.7 miles away
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