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Ellemford

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

History & Significance

Ellemford 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 Ellemford lies on Gala Group, bedrock that formed in the Telychian. The rock here is wacke.

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Roman Britain
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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.
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Scheduled Monuments near Ellemford

Ellem Church, church and burial ground
Ellem Church, church and burial ground
Scheduled monument · Medieval · ~0.1 mi

Ellem Church is a medieval church and burial ground located in Berwickshire, Scotland. The site occupies land underlain by the Gala Group, a formation of wacke deposited during the Telychian age of the Silurian period, around 430 million years ago. This hard, fine-grained sedimentary rock would h…

Edin's Hall,settlement 150m S of
Edin's Hall,settlement 150m S of
Scheduled monument · ~2.8 mi

Edin's Hall is a settlement located in Berwickshire, Scotland, positioned approximately 150 metres south of the monument from which it takes its name. The site lies upon bedrock of the Gala Group, a formation of wacke dating to the Telychian period, which provided the local communities with stone…

Cranshaws House, church and burial ground 150m SE of
Cranshaws House, church and burial ground 150m SE of
Scheduled monument · Medieval · ~2.9 mi

Cranshaws House, church and burial ground is a medieval ecclesiastical site in Berwickshire, Scotland, situated on bedrock of the Gala Group wacke formation of Telychian age. The church and its associated burial ground lie approximately 150 metres south-east of Cranshaws House, occupying a landsc…

Chester's Dikes, settlement
Chester's Dikes, settlement
Scheduled monument · ~3.1 mi

Chester's Dikes is a settlement in Berwickshire, Scottish Borders, protected as a scheduled monument by Historic Environment Scotland. The site lies on bedrock of the Gala Group, a wacke formation dating to the Telychian period of the Early Silurian, which provides a relatively firm foundation ac…

Longformacus House,enclosed cremation cemetery 1450m SW of
Longformacus House,enclosed cremation cemetery 1450m SW of
Scheduled monument · ~3.5 mi

Longformacus House is an enclosed cremation cemetery located in Berwickshire, south-east Scotland, situated approximately 1,450 metres south-west of Longformacus village. The site lies on bedrock of the Gala Group, a sequence of wacke deposits formed during the Telychian period of the Silurian ep…

Fort, 690m SW of the summit of Wrunk Law
Fort, 690m SW of the summit of Wrunk Law
Scheduled monument · ~3.5 mi

Fort 690m south-west of the summit of Wrunk Law is a hillfort situated in the rolling landscape of Berwickshire. The monument stands on bedrock of the Gala Group, a wacke formation dating to the Telychian period, which provides a firm foundation across this moorland terrain. The fort's positionin…

Shannabank Hill,fort
Scheduled monument · Iron Age · ~2.3 miles
Cockburn Law, fort
Scheduled monument · Iron Age · ~2.4 miles
In the same landscape

Battles near Ellemford

Ednam
~14.3 miles away
Battle of Carham
1010
~14.3 miles away
Sprouston
~15.6 miles away
Hertford's Second Raid
1545
~16.1 miles away
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