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Monk's Haugh

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

History & Significance

Monk's Haugh 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 Monk's Haugh lies on Clackmannan Group, bedrock that formed in the Westphalian. The rock here is sedimentary rock cycles, clackmannan group type.

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Battlefields
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Roman Britain
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Stat Accounts
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Civil War
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Geology
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Scheduled Monuments near Monk's Haugh

Brunston Castle
Brunston Castle
Scheduled monument · ~1.5 mi

Brunston Castle is a late medieval fortified tower house located in Midlothian, Scotland. The castle dates to the sixteenth century and represents the type of defensible domestic architecture characteristic of the Scottish Borders and lowland regions during the early modern period. The structure…

Upper Whitfield,enclosures 375m SE and 350m ESE of
Upper Whitfield,enclosures 375m SE and 350m ESE of
Scheduled monument · Post-Medieval · ~1.7 mi

Upper Whitfield Enclosures is a pair of post-medieval field enclosures located in Peeblesshire, Scotland, situated 375 metres south-east and 350 metres east-south-east of Upper Whitfield farm. The monuments represent the organised agricultural management of the Borders landscape during the early…

Old Deepsykehead,enclosed cremation cemetery 270m SSE of
Old Deepsykehead,enclosed cremation cemetery 270m SSE of
Scheduled monument · ~1.9 mi

Old Deepsykehead is an enclosed cremation cemetery located in Peeblesshire, Scotland, approximately 270 metres south-south-east of the settlement from which it takes its name. The monument represents a Bronze Age burial tradition in which the cremated remains of the dead were interred within a de…

Cock Rig to Linton Muir,Roman road
Cock Rig to Linton Muir,Roman road
Scheduled monument · Roman · ~2.3 mi

Cock Rig to Linton Muir is a Roman road in Peeblesshire, Scotland, protected by Historic Environment Scotland as a scheduled monument under reference SM3247. The route traverses terrain underlain by sedimentary rocks of the Strathclyde Group, formed during the Visean period, which would have pres…

Ravensneuk Castle
Ravensneuk Castle
Scheduled monument · ~2.9 mi
Carnethy Hill,cairn,Silverburn
Carnethy Hill,cairn,Silverburn
Scheduled monument · ~3.6 mi

Carnethy Hill cairn is a funerary monument situated on the Pentland Hills near Silverburn in Midlothian, Scotland. The cairn rests upon Silurian to Devonian bedrock of felsic lava and tuff, geological formations that underlie much of this elevated moorland landscape. These ancient igneous rocks,…

Old Deepsykehead,long cairn 910m NE of
Scheduled monument · Neolithic · ~1.2 miles
The Gowk Stane,730m ENE of Auchencorth
Scheduled monument · ~1.5 miles
In the same landscape

Battles near Monk's Haugh

West Linton
~4 miles away
Battle of Rullion Green, 1666
1666
~4.2 miles away
Romanno
~5.3 miles away
Battle of Roslin 1303
1303
~6.9 miles away
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