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Rig Hill, Nith Lodge

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

History & Significance

Rig Hill, Nith Lodge 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 Rig Hill, Nith Lodge lies on Unnamed Igneous Intrusion, Carboniferous To Permian, bedrock that formed in the Permian. The rock here is mafic igneous-rock.

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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 Rig Hill, Nith Lodge

Dalmellington,motte
Dalmellington,motte
Scheduled monument · Medieval · ~3.9 mi

Dalmellington Motte is a medieval motte located in Ayrshire, Scotland. The monument sits upon bedrock of the Scottish Coal Measures Group, a Moscovian-age geological formation comprising mudstone, siltstone, sandstone, coal, ironstone and ferricrete. This underlying geology of coal-bearing strata…

Waterside, miners' villages & mineral railways N of
Waterside, miners' villages & mineral railways N of
Scheduled monument · ~4.6 mi

Waterside miners' villages and mineral railways is a heritage complex in Ayrshire, Scotland, protected by Historic Environment Scotland. The site comprises the scattered remains of workers' settlements and the infrastructure that served the mineral extraction industry which flourished in this par…

Laight Castle
Laight Castle
Scheduled monument · ~5 mi

Laight Castle is a late medieval fortified tower house located in Ayrshire, Scotland. The structure dates to the fifteenth or sixteenth century and represents a characteristic example of Scottish defensive architecture from the early modern period. The tower house would have served as both a resi…

Waterside, Dalmellington Ironworks
Waterside, Dalmellington Ironworks
Scheduled monument · ~5.5 mi

Waterside, Dalmellington Ironworks is a scheduled monument situated in Ayrshire, Scotland, that represents an important phase of Scottish industrial development. The works exploited the locally abundant coal and ironstone deposits of the Clackmannan Group bedrock, sedimentary formations laid down…

Waterside Bing, iron slag bing, Dalmellington Ironworks
Waterside Bing, iron slag bing, Dalmellington Ironworks
Scheduled monument · ~5.8 mi

Waterside Bing is an iron slag bing at the former Dalmellington Ironworks in Ayrshire, Scotland, and is protected by Historic Environment Scotland as a scheduled monument under reference SM7544. The bing represents the accumulated industrial waste from the ironworks, a substantial conical or ridg…

Auchinleck Castle
Auchinleck Castle
Scheduled monument · ~8.6 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…

Bogton Loch airfield, 175m SSE of Buchan's Bridge, Dalmellington
Scheduled monument · ~4.2 miles
Auchencloigh Castle
Scheduled monument · ~4.8 miles
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Battles near Rig Hill, Nith Lodge

Battle of the Spoiling of Ochiltree
1601
~5 miles away
Lugar Water, Waterside Wood
~6.9 miles away
Scottish Garrison Holds Loch Doon Castle 1333-1335
1333
~7.4 miles away
Battle of Airds Moss 1680
1680
~9.8 miles away
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