When did Inverness, Longman Airfield take place?

Inverness, Longman Airfield took place in an uncertain year, Scotland.

Who won Inverness, Longman Airfield?

The victor at Inverness, Longman Airfield is disputed or unrecorded in the surviving sources.

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Unknown Era

Inverness, Longman Airfield

Scotland

Era

Unknown Era

Battle Type

Pitched Battle

Location

Scotland

Status

Unregistered

The Battle

History & Significance

Inverness, Longman Airfield 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 Inverness, Longman Airfield lies on Middle Old Red Sandstone (Undifferentiated), bedrock that formed in the Middle Devonian. The rock here is conglomerate, sandstone, siltstone and mudstone.

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Protected heritage nearby

Scheduled Monuments near Inverness, Longman Airfield

Remains of Cromwell's Fort, bastion west of Lotland Place, Inverness

Scheduled monument · ~0.4 mi

Remains of Cromwell's Fort is a bastion fort west of Lotland Place in Inverness, constructed during the English military occupation of Scotland in the mid-seventeenth century. The fort sits on bedrock of Middle Old Red Sandstone, a durable conglomerate and sandstone foundation laid down in the Mi…

Caledonian Canal,Clachnaharry Sea Lock to Muirtown Quay

Scheduled monument · ~1.3 mi

Clachnaharry Sea Lock to Muirtown Quay is a section of the Caledonian Canal that forms the navigable link between Inverness and the Moray Firth on the north-east coast of Scotland. This stretch encompasses the tidal sea lock at Clachnaharry and the inland basin at Muirtown, two essential componen…

Ashton Farm Cottages, ring ditch 415m SW and pit circles 460m WSW of

Scheduled monument · ~1.8 mi

Ashton Farm Cottages is a Bronze Age settlement in Inverness-shire, protected as a scheduled monument by Historic Environment Scotland. The site comprises a ring ditch situated 415 metres south-west of the cottages and pit circles located 460 metres west-south-west of the main structure. These fe…

Ord Hill,fort

Scheduled monument · Iron Age · ~1.9 mi

Ord Hill is an Iron Age fort located in Ross-shire, northern Scotland. The fort sits upon bedrock of Middle Old Red Sandstone, a conglomerate and sandstone formation dating to the Middle Devonian period. This underlying geology of mixed conglomeratic and fine sedimentary rocks would have presente…

Lower Slackbuie, unenclosed settlement 90m E of 1 West Heather Road

Scheduled monument · ~2.3 mi

Lower Slackbuie is an unenclosed settlement located 90 metres east of 1 West Heather Road in Inverness-shire, Scotland. The site occupies ground underlain by Middle Old Red Sandstone bedrock of Middle Devonian age, a mixed sequence of conglomerate, sandstone, siltstone and mudstone that would hav…

Caledonian Canal,Dochgarroch Lock - Muirtown Locks

Scheduled monument · ~2.7 mi

Dochgarroch Lock to Muirtown Locks is a section of the Caledonian Canal in Inverness-shire, Scotland. This waterway forms part of Thomas Telford's ambitious early nineteenth-century scheme to connect the east and west coasts of Scotland via the Great Glen. The canal's route follows the geological…

Inverness, site of Dominican friary and effigy of a knight, Friars' Street

Scheduled monument · ~0.6 miles

Craig Phadrig,fort

Scheduled monument · Iron Age · ~2 miles

In the same landscape

Battles near Inverness, Longman Airfield

Siege of Inverness

1689

~0.3 miles away

Siege of Inverness (1715)

Siege of Inverness (1746)

1746

~0.8 miles away

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