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Littleport Farm

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

History & Significance

Littleport Farm 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 Littleport Farm lies on Southern Highland Group, bedrock that formed in the Middle Cambrian. The rock here is psammite and pelite.

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Roman Britain
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Geology
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Scheduled Monuments near Littleport Farm

Cultybraggan camp, burial mounds 150m to 350m N of
Cultybraggan camp, burial mounds 150m to 350m N of
Scheduled monument · ~4.7 mi

Cultybraggan camp burial mounds is a Neolithic or Bronze Age funerary monument located in Perthshire, Scotland, situated 150 to 350 metres north of Cultybraggan camp. The mounds represent evidence of prehistoric burial practice in the region, though their precise dating and cultural association r…

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Balmuick,stone circle 1600m ENE of
Balmuick,stone circle 1600m ENE of
Scheduled monument · Bronze Age · ~5.2 mi

Balmuick is a bronze age stone circle situated 1600 metres east-north-east of a substantial settlement in Perthshire, Scotland. The monument stands upon bedrock formed during the Early Devonian period, part of an unnamed mafic igneous intrusion that underlies this landscape and dates to the Late…

Auchingarrich Farm, standing stone, Comrie
Auchingarrich Farm, standing stone, Comrie
Scheduled monument · Bronze Age · ~6.1 mi

Auchingarrich Farm Standing Stone is a Bronze Age monument located near Comrie in Perthshire, Scotland. The stone stands upon bedrock belonging to the Arbuthnott-Garvock Group, a geological formation of Pragian age comprising sandstone interspersed with bands of conglomerate, siltstone and mudsto…

Edinchip,chambered cairn 650m SSW of
Edinchip,chambered cairn 650m SSW of
Scheduled monument · Neolithic · ~7.9 mi

Edinchip is a Neolithic chambered cairn situated on moorland 650 metres south-south-west of Edinchip in Perthshire. The monument stands on bedrock of the Southern Highland Group, a geological formation of psammite and pelite that dates to the Middle Cambrian period. This underlying geology of fin…

Torlum,cairn
Torlum,cairn
Scheduled monument · ~7.9 mi

Torlum is a cairn, a funerary monument of stone constructed during the Bronze Age, situated in Perthshire in central Scotland. The cairn lies upon bedrock of the Strathmore Group, sandstone formations interspersed with conglomerate, siltstone and mudstone that date to the Emsian period of the Ear…

Wester Tullich, copper mine & associated remains 700m NE of
Wester Tullich, copper mine & associated remains 700m NE of
Scheduled monument · ~8.6 mi

Wester Tullich is a copper mine and associated remains located in Perthshire, Scotland, approximately 700 metres north-east of the settlement. The site exploits deposits within an unnamed igneous intrusion of felsic rock that formed during the Early Devonian period, when molten material intruded…

Dundurn Fort,fort St Fillan's Hill
Scheduled monument · Iron Age · ~0.7 miles
Kindrochet,long cairn 320m S of
Scheduled monument · Neolithic · ~1.6 miles
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Battles near Littleport Farm

Battle of Strathyre
~9.7 miles away
Battle of Sheriffmuir
1715
~15.5 miles away
Millhill
~16.5 miles away
Jacobite crossing of the Forth at the Fords of Frew, 1745
1745
~18.1 miles away
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