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Gogar

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

History & Significance

Gogar 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 Gogar lies on Strathclyde Group, bedrock that formed in the Visean. The rock here is sedimentary rock cycles, strathclyde group type.

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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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Protected heritage nearby

Scheduled Monuments near Gogar

Easter Norton,standing stone 280m WSW of
Easter Norton,standing stone 280m WSW of
Scheduled monument · Bronze Age · ~0.5 mi

Easter Norton is a Bronze Age standing stone located in Midlothian, Scotland, standing approximately 280 metres west-south-west of Easter Norton itself. The monument represents one of many upright stones erected across the Scottish lowlands during the Bronze Age, likely between 2500 and 1000 BC.…

Union Canal, Fountainbridge to River Almond
Union Canal, Fountainbridge to River Almond
Scheduled monument · ~1.4 mi

Union Canal, Fountainbridge to River Almond, is a scheduled monument extending through Midlothian, Scotland. This section of the canal runs beneath sedimentary bedrock of the Strathclyde Group, formed during the Visean period of the Carboniferous. The underlying geology consists of the characteri…

Cammo,standing stone
Cammo,standing stone
Scheduled monument · Bronze Age · ~1.7 mi

Cammo is a Bronze Age standing stone located in Midlothian, Scotland. The monument survives as a single upright stone of modest dimensions, representing the class of ritual or territorial markers characteristic of Bronze Age settlement patterns in the Scottish lowlands. Such stones typically serv…

Jonathan Oldenbuck / CC BY-SA 4.0 / Wikimedia Commons
Craigie Hill,fort
Craigie Hill,fort
Scheduled monument · Iron Age · ~2.3 mi

Craigie Hill fort is an Iron Age fortified settlement situated in Linlithgowshire, central Scotland. The site occupies a commanding position on bedrock formed from a Carboniferous to Permian mafic igneous intrusion, providing a naturally elevated and defensible location. This geological foundatio…

Tormain Hill,cup & ring marked rocks 700m NE of Bonnington Mains
Tormain Hill,cup & ring marked rocks 700m NE of Bonnington Mains
Scheduled monument · ~2.6 mi

Tormain Hill is a Bronze Age rock art site comprising cup and ring marked stones located 700 metres north-east of Bonnington Mains in Midlothian. The carvings were created by pecking and grinding into the natural rock surface, a practice widespread across Britain during the Bronze Age, particular…

Krasnay / CC BY-SA 4.0 / Wikimedia Commons
Craigpark Quarry, enclosure 450m W of
Craigpark Quarry, enclosure 450m W of
Scheduled monument · Post-Medieval · ~2.6 mi

Craigpark Quarry enclosure is a post-medieval stone-built structure situated 450 metres west of Craigpark in Midlothian, Scotland. The enclosure represents the agricultural and pastoral management practices of early modern rural Scotland, when such stone-walled boundaries became increasingly comm…

Gogar Mains,fort,palisaded enclosure and field system 850m SSE of
Scheduled monument · Iron Age · ~0.3 miles
Catstane, inscribed stone and long cist cemetery 690m E of Carlowrie
Scheduled monument · Bronze Age · ~1.6 miles
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