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Mauchline Moor

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

History & Significance

Mauchline Moor 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 Mauchline Moor lies on Stewartry Group, bedrock that formed in the Early Permian. The rock here is sandstone, breccia and conglomerate.

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Monuments
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Battlefields
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Roman Britain
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Stat Accounts
The parish Statistical Accounts of the 1790s and 1830s, describing life, work and population here.
Civil War
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Geology
The bedrock beneath the site, its age and rock type, reaching back hundreds of millions of years.
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Scheduled Monuments near Mauchline Moor

Kingencleugh Castle
Kingencleugh Castle
Scheduled monument · ~0.6 mi

Kingencleugh Castle is a medieval fortified structure located in Ayrshire, Scotland. The site represents a significant example of late medieval defensive architecture in the region, constructed during a period of considerable strategic importance in southwest Scotland. The castle comprises the re…

Auchinleck Castle
Auchinleck Castle
Scheduled monument · ~2 mi

Auchinleck Castle is a medieval stronghold situated in East Ayrshire, Scotland, dating from the fifteenth century. The castle represents a typical Scottish baronial tower house of its period, featuring the characteristic defensive architecture employed by minor nobility and landed gentry in the r…

Catrine, water works for Catrine Mill 30m S of 9 St Cuthbert's Street
Catrine, water works for Catrine Mill 30m S of 9 St Cuthbert's Street
Scheduled monument · ~2.2 mi

Catrine Water Works is a water supply system constructed to serve Catrine Mill, located 30 metres south of 9 St Cuthbert's Street in Ayrshire, Scotland. The works were engineered to harness water resources for the mill's industrial operations, forming part of the significant industrial infrastruc…

Trabboch Castle
Trabboch Castle
Scheduled monument · ~3.6 mi

Trabboch Castle is a late medieval fortified tower house located in Ayrshire, south-west Scotland. The castle dates from the fifteenth or sixteenth century and represents the type of defensive residential structure built by Scottish landowners during the later medieval period. The tower house wou…

Rosser1954 / CC BY-SA 3.0 / Wikimedia Commons
Tarbolton,motte
Tarbolton,motte
Scheduled monument · Medieval · ~4.1 mi

Tarbolton Motte is a medieval motte situated in Ayrshire, south-west Scotland. The earthwork rises from bedrock composed of Permian extrusive rocks—ancient mafic lava and tuff formed over 250 million years ago—which provided a naturally firm foundation for the mound's construction. Like other mot…

Enterkine,barrow 550m ENE of
Enterkine,barrow 550m ENE of
Scheduled monument · ~4.7 mi

Enterkine Barrow is a Bronze Age burial mound located in Ayrshire, Scotland, situated 550 metres east-north-east of Enterkine itself. The monument stands on bedrock formed from Palaeogene mafic igneous intrusion, giving the landscape beneath the barrow a distinctive geological character shaped by…

Ballochmyle Viaduct,rock carvings 280m NE of
Scheduled monument · ~1 miles
Auchinleck Old House
Scheduled monument · ~2 miles
In the same landscape

Battles near Mauchline Moor

Battle of Mauchline Muir
1648
~0 miles away
Lugar Water, Waterside Wood
~4.4 miles away
Battle of the Spoiling of Ochiltree
1601
~5.5 miles away
Battle of Airds Moss 1680
1680
~6.5 miles away
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