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Darnick, Skirmish Field

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

History & Significance

Darnick, Skirmish Field was a skirmish, 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 Darnick, Skirmish Field lies on Hawick Group, bedrock that formed in the Wenlock. The rock here is wacke.

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Scheduled Monuments near Darnick, Skirmish Field

Huntly Burn,earthworks
Huntly Burn,earthworks
Scheduled monument · ~1.5 mi

Huntly Burn is a group of earthworks located in Roxburghshire in the Scottish Borders. The monument is protected as a scheduled monument by Historic Environment Scotland under reference SM2528. The site lies on bedrock of the Hawick Group, formed during the Wenlock epoch, comprising wacke that ty…

Eildon Hill North,fort & Roman signal station
Eildon Hill North,fort & Roman signal station
Scheduled monument · Iron Age · ~1.7 mi

Eildon Hill North is a defended settlement comprising an Iron Age fort and Roman signal station, located in Roxburghshire on the Scottish Borders. The monument occupies a commanding position on igneous bedrock of Carboniferous to Permian age, which has been weathered into a prominent hill offerin…

Jenny Gumbrell / CC BY-SA 2.0 / Wikimedia Commons
Cauldshiels Hill,fort
Cauldshiels Hill,fort
Scheduled monument · Iron Age · ~2.1 mi

Cauldshiels Hill is a univallate Iron Age hill fort situated in Roxburghshire in the Scottish Borders. The monument occupies a naturally defensive hilltop position and comprises a single defensive rampart enclosing an interior settlement area. The underlying bedrock comprises Wenlock-period wacke…

Newstead Roman military complex, 660m WSW of Broomhill Farm
Newstead Roman military complex, 660m WSW of Broomhill Farm
Scheduled monument · ~2.2 mi

Newstead Roman military complex is a fortified installation located in Roxburghshire, south-central Scotland, positioned 660 metres west-southwest of Broomhill Farm. The site occupies ground underlain by wacke bedrock of the Hawick Group, Wenlock age, typical of the Southern Uplands geology in th…

Rink Hill,fort 700m NE of
Rink Hill,fort 700m NE of
Scheduled monument · Iron Age · ~3.2 mi

Rink Hill is an Iron Age fort situated 700 metres north-east of Selkirkshire in the Scottish Borders. The monument occupies high ground underlain by Hawick Group wacke, a hard sedimentary rock formed in the Wenlock period of the Silurian era. This durable bedrock would have provided a stable foun…

Old Melrose,linear earthwork 300m W of
Old Melrose,linear earthwork 300m W of
Scheduled monument · ~3.2 mi

Old Melrose is a linear earthwork located in Roxburghshire, Scotland, situated approximately 300 metres west of the settlement. The monument is protected as a scheduled monument by Historic Environment Scotland under reference SM4018. Linear earthworks of this type, common across the Scottish Bor…

Melrose Abbey
Scheduled monument · ~0.9 miles
Easter Hill,fort
Scheduled monument · Iron Age · ~2.3 miles
In the same landscape

Battles near Darnick, Skirmish Field

Battle of Darnick
~0.1 miles away
Battle of Melrose (also known as Battle of Darnick), 1526
1526
~0.9 miles away
Battle of Melrose
1526
~1 miles away
Englishmen's Sike, the Raid Stane
~1.7 miles away
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