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Mossburnford

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

History & Significance

Mossburnford 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 Mossburnford lies on Stratheden Group, bedrock that formed in the Late Devonian. The rock here is sandstone and conglomerate, interbedded.

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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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Protected heritage nearby

Scheduled Monuments near Mossburnford

Jedburgh Abbey, 50m ESE of Abbey House
Jedburgh Abbey, 50m ESE of Abbey House
Scheduled monument · Medieval · ~2.5 mi

Jedburgh Abbey is a medieval monastic ruin situated 50 metres east-south-east of Abbey House in Roxburghshire, Scotland. The abbey stands on bedrock of the Stratheden Group, a formation of interbedded sandstone and conglomerate laid down in the Late Devonian period. This geologically stable found…

Mervinslaw Tower
Mervinslaw Tower
Scheduled monument · ~3.2 mi

Mervinslaw Tower is a defensive structure located in Roxburghshire in the Scottish Borders. The tower dates from the late medieval period and represents the type of fortified architecture characteristic of the turbulent border region between Scotland and England. The monument survives as a stone…

Cappuck,Roman fort
Cappuck,Roman fort
Scheduled monument · Iron Age · ~3.2 mi

Cappuck is a Roman fort in Roxburghshire, Scotland, situated on bedrock of the Hawick Group, a hard wacke formation laid down during the Wenlock period. The fort occupies a strategically significant location in the Scottish Borders during the Roman occupation of Britain. Its placement reflects th…

The Law,fort
The Law,fort
Scheduled monument · Iron Age · ~3.2 mi

The Law is an Iron Age fort located in Roxburghshire, Scotland. The site occupies a defensible hilltop position founded upon Silurian to Devonian extrusive rocks, a geological foundation of mafic lava and tuff that provided both a naturally elevated stronghold and stone suitable for construction.…

Fulton Tower
Fulton Tower
Scheduled monument · ~3.9 mi
Walter Baxter / CC BY-SA 2.0 / Wikimedia Commons
Timpendean,tower & earthwork
Timpendean,tower & earthwork
Scheduled monument · ~4.1 mi

Timpendean is a tower and earthwork located in Roxburghshire, Scotland, and is protected as a scheduled monument by Historic Environment Scotland. The site occupies ground underlain by sandstone and conglomerate of the Stratheden Group, Late Devonian in age, typical geology of the Scottish Border…

Scraesburgh,earthwork
Scheduled monument · ~1.6 miles
Lintalee,earthworks
Scheduled monument · ~1.6 miles
In the same landscape

Battles near Mossburnford

Mar Regency Border Skirmishes 1571-1572
1571
~3.8 miles away
Sclaterford
~4.4 miles away
Battle of Degsastan, 603 AD (Aedan mac Gabrain vs Aethelfrith)
603
~5.1 miles away
Rubers Law
~5.5 miles away
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