When did Lauder take place?

Lauder took place in an uncertain year, Scotland.

The victor at Lauder is disputed or unrecorded in the surviving sources.

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Unknown Era

Lauder

Scotland

Era

Unknown Era

Battle Type

Pitched Battle

Location

Scotland

Status

Unregistered

The Battle

History & Significance

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

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Overview

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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

The books, county histories, charters and archives that mention this place, quoted with their sources.

Legal

The protected sites nearby and the metal-detecting, access and treasure laws that apply to this ground.

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Target Zones

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Protected heritage nearby

Scheduled Monuments near Lauder

Trabrown,settlement 600m SW of

Scheduled monument · ~1.9 mi

Trabrown is a settlement located in Berwickshire, south-eastern Scotland, situated some 600 metres south-west of a modern reference point. The site is protected as a scheduled monument by Historic Environment Scotland under reference SM4629. This designation reflects its archaeological and histor…

Thirlestane Castle, old castle 510m SSW of Thirlestane

Scheduled monument · Medieval · ~2.2 mi

Thirlestane Castle is a medieval fortified site located in Berwickshire, southern Scotland, situated approximately 510 metres south-south-west of the settlement of Thirlestane. The castle occupies a defensible location on bedrock of the Reston Group, Early Devonian conglomerate and sandstone form…

Whitslaid Tower

Scheduled monument · ~2.3 mi

Whitslaid Tower is a sixteenth-century fortified tower house located in Berwickshire, in the Scottish Borders region. The structure represents the characteristic defensive architecture of the Anglo-Scottish border country during the early modern period, when such towers served as strongholds for…

Walter Baxter / CC BY-SA 2.0 / Wikimedia Commons

Thirlstane,fort 350m NE of

Scheduled monument · Iron Age · ~2.5 mi

Thirlstane Fort is an Iron Age fort situated in Berwickshire, in the Scottish Borders, approximately 350 metres north-east of Thirlstane. The fort occupies ground underlain by bedrock of the Reston Group, a geological formation dating to the Early Devonian period, comprising interbedded conglomer…

Dabshead Hill,fort and standing stone

Scheduled monument · Bronze Age · ~2.8 mi

Dabshead Hill is a Bronze Age fort and standing stone situated in Berwickshire, Scotland. The site occupies ground underlain by Reston Group bedrock, a formation of conglomerate and sandstone laid down during the Early Devonian period. This geological foundation would have presented both opportun…

Borrowston Rig,stone circles and cairns

Scheduled monument · Bronze Age · ~3.7 mi

Borrowston Rig is a Bronze Age ceremonial complex comprising stone circles and cairns located in Berwickshire in the Scottish Borders. The monument sits on bedrock of the Gala Group, a formation of wacke laid down during the Telychian period of the Silurian, which would have provided natural ston…

Lauder Barns,palisaded enclosure 550m SSW of

Scheduled monument · Post-Medieval · ~1.1 miles

Cathpair,hut circles and field system 2500m and 2600m ESE of

Scheduled monument · Post-Medieval · ~2.3 miles

In the same landscape

Battles near Lauder

Battle of Lauder Bridge 1482

1482

~0.4 miles away

Rough Wooing — English garrison at Lauder 1544

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Sources

Lauder · Canmore

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