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Pade O'france

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

History & Significance

Pade O'france 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 Pade O'france lies on Arbuthnott-Garvock Group, bedrock that formed in the Pragian. The rock here is sandstone with subordinate conglomerate, siltstone and mudstone.

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Roman Britain
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Stat Accounts
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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 Pade O'france

Montgoldrum,cairns & hut circle 400m E of
Montgoldrum,cairns & hut circle 400m E of
Scheduled monument · ~2.6 mi

Montgoldrum is a cairns and hut circle located in Kincardineshire, Scotland, approximately 400 metres east of the settlement. The monument comprises remains of Bronze Age funerary practice alongside evidence of domestic occupation. The cairns represent burial monuments typical of the second mille…

Fordoun,homestead moat
Fordoun,homestead moat
Scheduled monument · ~3.5 mi

Fordoun homestead moat is a medieval fortified farmstead located in Kincardineshire, Scotland. The monument consists of a substantial ditch enclosing a domestic settlement, a defensive feature typical of rural gentry residences in medieval Scotland. The moat would have enclosed timber or stone st…

St. Palladius' Chapel
St. Palladius' Chapel
Scheduled monument · ~3.7 mi

St. Palladius' Chapel is a small medieval chapel located in Kincardineshire, Scotland, traditionally associated with Saint Palladius, an early Christian missionary figure in Scotland. The chapel represents evidence of early Christian settlement and religious practice in the region, with its origi…

Cowie Line, pillboxes & anti-tank blocks NE of Whitehill
Cowie Line, pillboxes & anti-tank blocks NE of Whitehill
Scheduled monument · ~5.3 mi

Cowie Line is a defensive installation comprising pillboxes and anti-tank blocks situated northeast of Whitehill in Kincardineshire, Scotland. Part of the wider network of coastal and inland fortifications constructed during the Second World War, this site represents the strategic preparations ma…

Cairn of Shiels, cairn
Cairn of Shiels, cairn
Scheduled monument · ~5.5 mi

Cairn of Shiels is a cairn situated in Kincardineshire, Scotland, and is protected as a scheduled monument by Historic Environment Scotland. The monument lies upon bedrock composed of mafic lava and tuff dating to the Devonian period, geological foundations that have supported human activity in t…

St Ciaran's Church,old parish church,Fetteresso
St Ciaran's Church,old parish church,Fetteresso
Scheduled monument · Medieval · ~5.6 mi

St Ciaran's Church is a medieval parish church located in Fetteresso, Kincardineshire. The building stands on bedrock of the Stonehaven Group, Ludlow age strata comprising sandstone with subordinate conglomerate and siltstone, geology that characterises this coastal lowland area of the northeast…

Blackhill Wood,long cairn and cairn E of
Scheduled monument · Neolithic · ~1.4 miles
Droop Hill,cairns 1250m SW of Inches
Scheduled monument · ~2 miles
In the same landscape

Battles near Pade O'france

Skirmish at Megray Hill, near Stonehaven, 1639
1639
~7.9 miles away
Kincardineshire
~8 miles away
Pictish Civil War: Battle of Monith Carno, 729
729
~8.4 miles away
Cairn O' Mount
~8.9 miles away
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