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Dinnet

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

History & Significance

Dinnet 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 Dinnet lies on Argyll Group, bedrock that formed in the Neoproterozoic. The rock here is psammite, semipelite and pelite.

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Monuments
The legally protected scheduled monuments around the location, each with its period, type and significance.
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
What the street and field names around here actually mean, and the history buried inside them.
Historical Maps
Ordnance Survey maps from the 1800s, layered over the location as it stands today.
Literature
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Scheduled Monuments near Dinnet

Knockenzie,settlement and field system W of
Knockenzie,settlement and field system W of
Scheduled monument · Post-Medieval · ~0.7 mi

Knockenzie is a post-medieval settlement and field system located in Aberdeenshire, Scotland. The site occupies ground underlain by bedrock of the Argyll Group, a sequence of sedimentary rocks formed during the Neoproterozoic period, comprising psammite, semipelite and pelite. These metamorphic s…

Ferrar,hut circle and field systems 300m SSE of to 550m E of
Ferrar,hut circle and field systems 300m SSE of to 550m E of
Scheduled monument · Post-Medieval · ~1.1 mi

Ferrar hut circle and field systems is a post-medieval settlement site in Aberdeenshire, consisting of a hut circle and associated field systems spread across the landscape between 300 metres south-south-east and 550 metres east of a reference point near Ferrar. The monument lies on bedrock of th…

Balnacraig,long cairn 260m NNW of
Balnacraig,long cairn 260m NNW of
Scheduled monument · Neolithic · ~1.3 mi

Balnacraig is a Neolithic long cairn situated in Aberdeenshire, approximately 260 metres north-north-west of the settlement from which it takes its name. The monument lies upon bedrock of the Argyll Group, a complex of metamorphic rocks formed during the Neoproterozoic, comprising psammite, semip…

Monandavan,ring cairn 650m SW of
Monandavan,ring cairn 650m SW of
Scheduled monument · Bronze Age · ~1.3 mi

Monandavan is a Bronze Age ring cairn situated 650 metres south-west of Monandavan in Aberdeenshire, Scotland. The monument consists of a circular arrangement of stones characteristic of the Bronze Age ring cairn tradition, built upon bedrock comprising an unnamed felsic igneous intrusion of Late…

Old Kinord,settlements and field systems E of
Old Kinord,settlements and field systems E of
Scheduled monument · Post-Medieval · ~1.6 mi

Old Kinord is a post-medieval settlements and field systems site located in Aberdeenshire, Scotland. The monument comprises the remains of settlements and associated field arrangements that developed on the landscape east of Old Kinord during the sixteenth to eighteenth centuries. These settlemen…

Heugh, homestead moat and earthworks 500m SSE of
Heugh, homestead moat and earthworks 500m SSE of
Scheduled monument · ~1.7 mi

Heugh is a homestead moat and earthworks located 500 metres south-south-east of Aberdeenshire, protected as a Scheduled Monument by Historic Environment Scotland. The site comprises the characteristic defensive earthworks of a medieval or early modern farmstead, with a moat defining the residenti…

Blue Cairn, long cairn 750m ESE of Tillyduke
Scheduled monument · Neolithic · ~1.7 miles
Loch Kinord,cross slab
Scheduled monument · ~1.9 miles
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Battles near Dinnet

Battle of Culblean 1335
1335
~2.3 miles away
Battle of Culblean (Kilblane) 1335
1335
~2.3 miles away
Culblean — Murray Defeats Atholl 1335
1335
~2.3 miles away
Battle of Tullich
1652
~6.4 miles away
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