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Dundee Law

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

History & Significance

Dundee Law 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 Dundee Law lies on Unnamed Igneous Intrusion, Late Silurian To Early Devonian, bedrock that formed in the Early Devonian. The rock here is mafic igneous-rock.

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Scheduled Monuments near Dundee Law

Dundee and Newtyle Railway,embankment N of Baldragon
Dundee and Newtyle Railway,embankment N of Baldragon
Scheduled monument · ~2.4 mi

Dundee and Newtyle Railway embankment north of Baldragon is a section of railway infrastructure surviving from the early nineteenth-century expansion of transport links in eastern Scotland. The embankment runs across Angus, constructed to carry the railway on a level course across the undulating…

St Peter's Church & graveyard, Invergowrie
St Peter's Church & graveyard, Invergowrie
Scheduled monument · ~2.7 mi

St Peter's Church and graveyard, Invergowrie is a medieval parish church with its associated burial ground in Perthshire, Scotland. The church stands on bedrock of the Arbuthnott-Garvock Group, a sandstone formation laid down during the Pragian period and interspersed with conglomerate, siltstone…

South Auchray, fort 300m NE of
South Auchray, fort 300m NE of
Scheduled monument · Iron Age · ~2.8 mi

South Auchray is an Iron Age fort situated near Glamis in Angus, north-east Scotland. The fort occupies ground underlain by Arbuttnott-Garvock Group sandstones and associated siltstones deposited during the Pragian period, geology that has shaped both the site's natural drainage and its defensive…

Paddock Stone, standing stone
Paddock Stone, standing stone
Scheduled monument · Bronze Age · ~2.9 mi

Paddock Stone is a Bronze Age standing stone located in Angus, Scotland, protected as a scheduled monument by Historic Environment Scotland. The monument belongs to a widespread tradition of monumental stone-setting that flourished across Britain and Ireland during the second millennium BC. Stand…

Invergowrie, souterrains W of TA Centre
Invergowrie, souterrains W of TA Centre
Scheduled monument · Iron Age · ~3.1 mi

Invergowrie souterrain W of TA Centre is an Iron Age underground stone-built chamber located in Angus, Scotland. Souterrains of this period are characterised by their subterranean passages and chambers, typically constructed from stone and earth, and their purpose remains debated among archaeolog…

Invergowrie, enclosure 150m SW of TA Centre
Invergowrie, enclosure 150m SW of TA Centre
Scheduled monument · Post-Medieval · ~3.2 mi

Invergowrie enclosure is a post-medieval field boundary or stock enclosure situated 150 metres south-west of the Angus town's Training and Assessment Centre. The monument lies upon bedrock of the Arbuttnott-Garvock Group, Pragian sandstone deposits interspersed with conglomerate, siltstone and mu…

Dundee Law,fort
Scheduled monument · Iron Age · ~0.1 miles
Wishart Arch, gateway 50m E of 15 Cowgate, Dundee
Scheduled monument · Iron Age · ~1 miles
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Battles near Dundee Law

Battle of Luncarty, Battle Law
~4.9 miles away
Ballinbreich
~10.4 miles away
Balass Farm
~10.6 miles away
Siege of Bonn (1703)
1703
~11 miles away
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