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Remote

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

History & Significance

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

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Roman Britain
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Civil War
The Civil War fighting, garrisons and recorded militaria in this area, woven into the arc of 1642 to 1651.
Geology
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Scheduled Monuments near Remote

Preston Mains,enclosure
Preston Mains,enclosure
Scheduled monument · Post-Medieval · ~0.3 mi

Preston Mains is a post-medieval enclosure located in Midlothian, Scotland. The monument sits upon bedrock of the Clackmannan Group, Westphalian sedimentary rocks that underlie much of this region. These ancient rock strata, deposited in a former basin during the Carboniferous period, form the ge…

Oxenfoord Mains,enclosure 400m NE of
Oxenfoord Mains,enclosure 400m NE of
Scheduled monument · Post-Medieval · ~1.6 mi

Oxenfoord Mains is a post-medieval enclosure situated 400 metres north-east of Oxenfoord in Midlothian, Scotland. The monument occupies land underlain by the Clackmannan Group, a sequence of sedimentary rocks formed during the Westphalian period, which gives the surrounding countryside its charac…

james denham / CC BY-SA 2.0 / Wikimedia Commons
Ormiston Hall,St Giles Kirk
Ormiston Hall,St Giles Kirk
Scheduled monument · ~1.6 mi

Ormiston Hall, St Giles Kirk is a parish church situated in East Lothian, Scotland, with roots extending into the medieval period. The kirk occupies ground underlain by sedimentary rocks of the Clackmannan Group, Westphalian in age, which form part of the Carboniferous strata characteristic of ce…

Turniedykes,enclosure 150m NW of
Turniedykes,enclosure 150m NW of
Scheduled monument · Post-Medieval · ~1.6 mi

Turniedykes is a post-medieval enclosure located in Midlothian, Scotland, situated approximately 150 metres north-west of the settlement from which it takes its name. The monument represents the agricultural and pastoral organisation of the early modern period, when such enclosed fields became in…

Hope,enclosure 300m SSE of
Hope,enclosure 300m SSE of
Scheduled monument · Post-Medieval · ~1.7 mi

Hope enclosure is a post-medieval enclosure located 300 metres south-south-east of Hope in Midlothian, Scotland. The monument sits on bedrock belonging to the Strathclyde Group, sedimentary rocks of Visean age that underlie much of the central Lowlands. This geology would have provided a foundati…

Settlement, Big Wood, 400m NW of Penkaet Rigg
Settlement, Big Wood, 400m NW of Penkaet Rigg
Scheduled monument · Post-Medieval · ~2 mi

# Big Wood Settlement Big Wood Settlement is a post-medieval settlement located 400 metres north-west of Penkaet Rigg in East Lothian, Scotland. The site lies upon bedrock of the Clackmannan Group, a sedimentary formation dating to the Westphalian period, which would have influenced the character…

Beech Knowe, enclosure, Remote
Scheduled monument · Post-Medieval · ~0.2 miles
Preston Toll,fort
Scheduled monument · Iron Age · ~0.6 miles
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Battles near Remote

Malcolm II Campaigns to Secure Lothian 1006-1018
1006
~2.7 miles away
Battle of Lauder Bridge 1482
1482
~13.3 miles away
Lauder
~13.7 miles away
Rough Wooing — English garrison at Lauder 1544
1544
~14.1 miles away
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