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Fairnington

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

History & Significance

Fairnington 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 Fairnington lies on Stratheden Group, bedrock that formed in the Late Devonian. The rock here is sandstone and conglomerate, interbedded.

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Monuments
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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 Fairnington

Peniel Heugh, fort
Peniel Heugh, fort
Scheduled monument · Iron Age · ~1.3 mi

Peniel Heugh is an Iron Age fort situated in Roxburghshire, southern Scotland. The monument occupies a naturally commanding position on bedrock formed from a mafic igneous intrusion of Permian age, whose harder stone would have provided a defensible foundation. The fort's location on this distinc…

Littledean Tower,tower-house
Littledean Tower,tower-house
Scheduled monument · ~2.1 mi

Littledean Tower is a tower-house located in Roxburghshire, Scotland. Tower-houses of this type were fortified residential structures built primarily between the 14th and 17th centuries, serving as strongholds for Border families during a period of considerable military instability. These compact…

Mantle Walls, Ancrum, bishop's palace
Mantle Walls, Ancrum, bishop's palace
Scheduled monument · ~2.1 mi

Mantle Walls is a bishop's palace situated at Ancrum in Roxburghshire, Scotland. The site occupies land underlain by Stratheden Group bedrock, a Late Devonian formation of interbedded sandstone and conglomerate that would have provided local building stone. As the residence of a bishop, the palac…

Castle Hill, fort
Castle Hill, fort
Scheduled monument · Iron Age · ~2.1 mi

Castle Hill, fort is an Iron Age hillfold positioned on high ground in Roxburghshire, commanding views across the surrounding landscape. The fort occupies a naturally defensible location, its prominence enhanced by the underlying geology of mafic igneous rock from the Carboniferous to Permian per…

Ancrum,market cross
Ancrum,market cross
Scheduled monument · ~2.2 mi

Ancrum Market Cross is a market cross situated in Roxburghshire, in the Scottish Borders. The monument stands upon bedrock of the Stratheden Group, a Late Devonian formation of interbedded sandstone and conglomerate that underlies much of this part of the border country. Market crosses served as…

Ringleyhall,fort
Ringleyhall,fort
Scheduled monument · Iron Age · ~2.6 mi

Ringleyhall Fort is an Iron Age hillfort located in Roxburghshire, Scottish Borders. The fort occupies a defensible position on bedrock composed of mafic lava and tuff of Dinantian age, volcanic rocks laid down during the Mississippian period over 300 million years ago. This ancient geological fo…

Muirhouselaw,homestead moat
Scheduled monument · ~0.6 miles
Dryburgh Abbey
Scheduled monument · ~3.7 miles
In the same landscape

Battles near Fairnington

Battle of Ancrum Moor
1545
~1.2 miles away
Battle of Degsastan, 603 AD (Aedan mac Gabrain vs Aethelfrith)
603
~3.4 miles away
Scott-Kerr feud — Cessford raid on Buccleuch lands 1548
1548
~3.5 miles away
Capture of Roxburgh (1314)
1314
~4.1 miles away
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