Mar Regency Border Skirmishes 1571-1572 was a Tudor campaign, fought in Scotland in 1571. During the regency of John Erskine, Earl of Mar (1571-1572), supporters of the exiled Mary, Queen of Scots (the Marian party) and the King's party governing for the infant James VI conducted ongoing, inconclusive skirmishing across the Scottish Borders. A documented example is the Raid of Jedburgh in June 1571, when an English force under Sir William Drury, Marshal of Berwick, intervened on behalf of the King's party and destroyed Jedburgh Castle, held by the Marian supporter Sir Thomas Kerr of Ferniehirst. The precise site is not recorded in the surviving sources, so the location shown is approximate.
The site of Mar Regency Border Skirmishes 1571-1572 lies on Stratheden Group, bedrock that formed in the Late Devonian. The rock here is sandstone and conglomerate, interbedded.
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