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Garvie

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

History & Significance

Garvie 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 Garvie lies on Southern Highland Group, bedrock that formed in the Middle Cambrian. The rock here is lava, tuff, volcaniclastic rock and sedimentary rock.

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Monuments
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Battlefields
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Roman Britain
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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
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Historical Maps
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Scheduled Monuments near Garvie

Clacheranmor, motte E of
Clacheranmor, motte E of
Scheduled monument · Medieval · ~2.2 mi

Clacheranmor Motte is a medieval earthwork located in Argyllshire, Scotland. The motte rises prominently from a landscape underlain by ancient volcanic bedrock of the Southern Highland Group, formed during the Middle Cambrian period from lava, tuff and volcaniclastic deposits interspersed with se…

Kilmorie Church, burial ground and cross, 450m SW of Castle Lachlan
Kilmorie Church, burial ground and cross, 450m SW of Castle Lachlan
Scheduled monument · Medieval · ~3.3 mi

Kilmorie Church, burial ground and cross is a medieval religious site located 450 metres south-west of Castle Lachlan in Argyllshire, Scotland. The monument comprises a burial ground and an upright stone cross, representing the spiritual focal point of the local community during the medieval peri…

Kilmodan Church, burial ground, sculptured stones & burial aisle
Kilmodan Church, burial ground, sculptured stones & burial aisle
Scheduled monument · ~4.5 mi

Kilmodan Church, burial ground, sculptured stones and burial aisle is a medieval ecclesiastical site in Argyllshire, Scotland, situated on bedrock of the Southern Highland Group. This geology, formed during the Middle Cambrian period from volcanic and sedimentary rocks, underlies much of this reg…

Brainport Bay,stone alignments and quern quarries
Brainport Bay,stone alignments and quern quarries
Scheduled monument · ~4.8 mi

Brainport Bay is a stone alignments and quern quarries located in Argyllshire, Scotland. The site comprises standing stones arranged in linear patterns alongside evidence of intensive stone-working activity focused on the extraction and manufacture of rotary querns. These portable hand mills were…

Crarae Lodge,long cairn
Crarae Lodge,long cairn
Scheduled monument · Neolithic · ~5.2 mi

Crarae Lodge long cairn is a Neolithic funerary monument located in Argyllshire, Scotland. The cairn sits upon bedrock of the Argyll Group, ancient metamorphic rocks formed during the Neoproterozoic era, comprising psammite, semipelite and pelite deposits that underlie much of this region. These…

Furnace, Ironworks
Furnace, Ironworks
Scheduled monument · ~6.1 mi

Furnace Ironworks is a scheduled monument protected by Historic Environment Scotland under reference SM2530. The works operated in Argyllshire during the early industrial period, exploiting the region's natural resources. The site occupies ground underlain by a felsic igneous intrusion of Late Si…

Ardacheranmor, motte 190 m N of
Scheduled monument · Medieval · ~2.5 miles
Lachlan Castle
Scheduled monument · ~3.5 miles
In the same landscape

Battles near Garvie

Battle of Ane
1227
~2.2 miles away
Crudail, Lephinkill, Glendaruel
~4.9 miles away
Sack of Inveraray (1644–1645)
~11.5 miles away
Campbell seizure of Dunoon Castle 1490
1490
~12 miles away
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