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Druim Cheate

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

History & Significance

Druim Cheate 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 Druim Cheate lies on Hawick Group, bedrock that formed in the Wenlock. The rock here is wacke.

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Roman Britain
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Civil War
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Geology
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Scheduled Monuments near Druim Cheate

Kirkcormack,motte,Mayfield
Kirkcormack,motte,Mayfield
Scheduled monument · Medieval · ~0.9 mi

Kirkcormack Motte is a medieval motte situated in Mayfield, Kirkcudbrightshire, in south-west Scotland. The monument stands upon bedrock of the Hawick Group, a Silurian-age wacke formation that provides the underlying geology of much of the region. This hard, fine-grained sandstone would have pre…

Park,stone circle
Park,stone circle
Scheduled monument · Bronze Age · ~2.2 mi

Park stone circle is a Bronze Age stone circle located in Kirkcudbrightshire, south-western Scotland. The monument stands upon bedrock of the Hawick Group, a wacke formation dating to the Wenlock period, which provides the underlying geology of this part of the Southern Uplands. Like other circle…

Threave Castle
Threave Castle
Scheduled monument · ~2.4 mi

Threave Castle is a late medieval stronghold situated on an island in the River Dee near Castle Douglas in Kirkcudbrightshire. The castle was constructed in the fourteenth century, likely begun around 1369, by Archibald the Grim, Lord of Galloway, and represents a substantial stone keep surrounde…

Fort, Meikle Wood Hill
Fort, Meikle Wood Hill
Scheduled monument · ~2.5 mi

Fort, Meikle Wood Hill is a univallate hillfort positioned on elevated ground in Kirkcudbrightshire, south-western Scotland. The monument occupies a strategic location where the underlying bedrock consists of Hawick Group wacke, a hard sedimentary stone that would have influenced both the fort's…

Carse Mote,fort
Carse Mote,fort
Scheduled monument · Iron Age · ~3.8 mi

Carse Mote is an Iron Age fort located in Kirkcudbrightshire, south-west Scotland. The monument sits upon bedrock of the Hawick Group, a formation of wacke laid down during the Wenlock period. This hard metamorphic rock, typical of the Southern Uplands geology, provided a naturally defensible fou…

Loch Mannoch,cairn & stone circle N end of
Loch Mannoch,cairn & stone circle N end of
Scheduled monument · Bronze Age · ~3.9 mi

Loch Mannoch cairn and stone circle is a Bronze Age monument occupying the northern end of Loch Mannoch in Kirkcudbrightshire. The site comprises a substantial cairn surrounded by a circle of standing stones, typical of ritual and burial practices in the second millennium BC. Built upon bedrock o…

Bargatton Farm,cairn 610m S of
Scheduled monument · ~3 miles
Castle Earthworks,enclosure 500m SSW of Mains of Greenlaw
Scheduled monument · Post-Medieval · ~3.2 miles
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1185
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New Galloway
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Agricola's Campaign Against the Selgovae and Novantae in Galloway, 81 AD
81
~12.7 miles away
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