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Kill Knowe

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

History & Significance

Kill Knowe 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 Kill Knowe lies on Unnamed Extrusive Rocks, Dinantian, bedrock that formed in the Mississippian. The rock here is mafic lava and mafic tuff.

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Monuments
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Battlefields
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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
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Historical Maps
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Scheduled Monuments near Kill Knowe

Fintry Castle, remains of
Fintry Castle, remains of
Scheduled monument · ~0.5 mi

Fintry Castle is a ruined medieval fortress located in Stirlingshire, Scotland. The remains consist of a substantially intact stone tower house that dates to the fifteenth century, representing a typical defensive residence of the Scottish nobility during the late medieval period. The castle stan…

Waterhead, two standing stones 800m ENE of
Waterhead, two standing stones 800m ENE of
Scheduled monument · Bronze Age · ~1.4 mi

Waterhead is a Bronze Age standing stone monument comprising two stones situated on high ground near Stirlingshire. The pair stands approximately 800 metres east-north-east of the settlement from which they take their name. The site is protected as a scheduled monument under Historic Environment…

Craigton,dun 460m N of
Craigton,dun 460m N of
Scheduled monument · Iron Age · ~1.5 mi

Craigton Dun is an Iron Age fortified settlement located in Stirlingshire, Scotland, standing on bedrock formed from a Carboniferous to Permian mafic igneous intrusion. The dun occupies a defensible position on this volcanic geology, characteristic of many Scottish hill forts of the period. The s…

Todholes,cairn 1000m NNE of
Todholes,cairn 1000m NNE of
Scheduled monument · ~1.9 mi

Todholes is a cairn situated 1000 metres north-north-east of Todholes in Stirlingshire, Scotland. The monument stands on bedrock composed of Dinantian extrusive rocks of Mississippian age, a foundation of ancient mafic lava and tuff deposited over 320 million years ago during the Carboniferous pe…

Sir John de Graham's Castle
Sir John de Graham's Castle
Scheduled monument · ~2.1 mi

Sir John de Graham's Castle is a medieval fortified site located in Stirlingshire, Scotland. The castle is associated with Sir John de Graham, a prominent Scottish knight of the late thirteenth and early fourteenth centuries who was a supporter of William Wallace during the Wars of Scottish Indep…

Fintry,motte 400m WSW of Fintry Bridge
Fintry,motte 400m WSW of Fintry Bridge
Scheduled monument · Medieval · ~2.3 mi

Fintry Motte is a medieval earthwork located 400 metres west-south-west of Fintry Bridge in Stirlingshire, Scotland. The motte survives as a substantial artificial mound characteristic of 12th and 13th-century fortifications in Scotland, raised upon bedrock of the Inverclyde Group, a sequence of…

Double Craigs,hut circle
Scheduled monument · ~1.3 miles
Todholes,cairn 1300m NNW of
Scheduled monument · ~1.9 miles
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Battles near Kill Knowe

Forth-Clyde Canal Reservoir
~7.3 miles away
Battle of Kilsyth
1645
~7.4 miles away
Craigallain
~8.5 miles away
Battle of Glasgow
1544
~13 miles away
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