When did Keith's Muir take place?

Keith's Muir took place in an uncertain year, Scotland.

Who won Keith's Muir?

The victor at Keith's Muir is disputed or unrecorded in the surviving sources.

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Unknown Era

Keith's Muir

Scotland

Era

Unknown Era

Battle Type

Pitched Battle

Location

Scotland

Status

Unregistered

The Battle

History & Significance

Keith's Muir 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 Keith's Muir lies on Unnamed Igneous Intrusion, Late Silurian To Early Devonian, bedrock that formed in the Early Devonian. The rock here is felsic-rock.

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Monuments

The legally protected scheduled monuments around the location, each with its period, type and significance.

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 Keith's Muir

Castle Hill,motte,Kirkton of Durris

Scheduled monument · Medieval · ~1.4 mi

Castle Hill, Kirkton of Durris is a medieval motte situated in Kincardineshire, Scotland. The monument occupies high ground composed of Argyll Group bedrock, ancient metamorphic stone laid down in the Neoproterozoic era and comprising psammite, semipelite and pelite. This substantial earthwork re…

Clune Wood,cairn 900m SE of Woodlands School

Scheduled monument · ~2.2 mi

Clune Wood, cairn 900m SE of Woodlands School is a prehistoric burial cairn located in Kincardineshire, Scotland. The monument stands on bedrock of the Argyll Group, a sequence of metamorphic rocks—psammite, semipelite and pelite—formed during the Neoproterozoic era. These hard, compact stones wo…

Clune Wood, stone circle 280m NNE of Monthammock

Scheduled monument · Bronze Age · ~2.2 mi

Clune Wood is a Bronze Age stone circle located 280 metres north-north-east of Monthammock in Kincardineshire, Scotland. The monument stands upon bedrock of the Argyll Group, ancient metamorphic rocks formed during the Neoproterozoic era, comprising psammite, semipelite and pelite deposits that u…

Benthoull Croft, cairn 140m W of

Scheduled monument · ~3.2 mi

Benthoull Croft is a cairn located in Aberdeenshire, Scotland, situated 140 metres west of Benthoull Croft itself. The monument is protected as a scheduled monument by Historic Environment Scotland under reference SM12351. The cairn stands upon bedrock composed of an unnamed igneous intrusion of…

Standingstones, standing stone 275m ESE of

Scheduled monument · Bronze Age · ~3.3 mi

Standingstones is a Bronze Age standing stone located in Kincardineshire, Scotland, situated approximately 275 metres south-east of the settlement from which it takes its name. The monument stands upon bedrock of the Argyll Group, a Neoproterozoic sequence of metamorphic rocks comprising psammite…

Standingstones, hut circles 615m and 680m SW of

Scheduled monument · ~3.4 mi

Standingstones is a scatter of hut circles situated in Aberdeenshire, Scotland, approximately 615 metres and 680 metres south-west of the monument's named point. The site occupies high ground underlain by felsic igneous rock of Early Devonian age, typical of the upland terrain that characterises…

Bogton, cairn, field system and trackway 250m NE of

Scheduled monument · Post-Medieval · ~1.3 miles

Upper Balfour, cairns, house, & field system 500m to 1000m SW of

Scheduled monument · Post-Medieval · ~1.8 miles

In the same landscape

Battles near Keith's Muir

Skirmish at Megray Hill, near Stonehaven, 1639

1639

~8.1 miles away

Battle of the Brig of Dee

1639

~8.8 miles away

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Sources

Keith's Muir · Canmore

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