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Kailzie Estate

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

History & Significance

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

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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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Scheduled Monuments near Kailzie Estate

Tor Hill,fort
Tor Hill,fort
Scheduled monument · Iron Age · ~0.6 mi

Tor Hill is an Iron Age fort located in Peeblesshire, southern Scotland. The site occupies a naturally defensive position with commanding views across the surrounding landscape. Built upon bedrock of the Gala Group wacke, a hard sedimentary stone formed during the Telychian period of the Silurian…

Horsburgh Castle
Horsburgh Castle
Scheduled monument · ~0.8 mi

Horsburgh Castle is a 16th-century fortified tower house situated in Peeblesshire in the Scottish Borders. The castle served as a stronghold for the Horsburgh family, a prominent local lineage with historical ties to the region. The structure exemplifies the tower house form characteristic of lat…

Glentress,St Leonard's Hospital
Glentress,St Leonard's Hospital
Scheduled monument · ~0.9 mi

St Leonard's Hospital is a medieval hospital complex located in Peeblesshire, in the Scottish Borders. The site rests upon wacke bedrock of the Gala Group, which was formed during the Telychian period and has shaped the underlying geology of this upland region. The institution represents an impor…

Upper Newby,fort 320m SSE of
Upper Newby,fort 320m SSE of
Scheduled monument · Iron Age · ~1.1 mi

Upper Newby is a Iron Age fort situated 320 metres south-south-east of Upper Newby in Selkirkshire, in the Scottish Borders. The fort occupies a location on bedrock of the Gala Group, a formation of wacke dating from the Telychian period of the Silurian. This geology has shaped both the landscape…

Upper Newby,fort 910m SSE of
Upper Newby,fort 910m SSE of
Scheduled monument · Iron Age · ~1.3 mi

Upper Newby Fort is an Iron Age hillfort situated in Selkirkshire, in the Scottish Borders. The monument occupies elevated ground founded on wacke bedrock of the Gala Group, formed during the Telychian period of geological time. This solid geological foundation would have provided a stable base f…

Cardrona Mains,standing stone 180m W of
Cardrona Mains,standing stone 180m W of
Scheduled monument · Bronze Age · ~1.4 mi

Cardrona Mains is a Bronze Age standing stone located in Peeblesshire, Scotland, situated 180 metres west of Cardrona Mains. The monument stands within an area of Gala Group geology, formed during the Telychian period as wacke deposits, giving the surrounding landscape its characteristic rolling…

Charge Law Plantation,fort & settlement
Scheduled monument · Iron Age · ~0.6 miles
Whitehaugh,fort 1010m SE of
Scheduled monument · Iron Age · ~0.7 miles
In the same landscape

Battles near Kailzie Estate

Hatstoun
~1.9 miles away
Peeblesshire
~5.1 miles away
Battle of Happrew 1304
1304
~6.2 miles away
Ladyurd
~8.6 miles away
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