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Rubers Law

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

History & Significance

Rubers Law 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 Rubers Law 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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Monuments
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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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Protected heritage nearby

Scheduled Monuments near Rubers Law

Rubers Law,fort & Roman signal station
Rubers Law,fort & Roman signal station
Scheduled monument · Iron Age · ~0.1 mi

Rubers Law is a hillfort with Romano-British signal station located in Roxburghshire, Scottish Borders. The monument sits upon a distinctive geological foundation of mafic igneous rock, part of an unnamed intrusion of Carboniferous to Permian age. This solid bedrock provided an exceptionally secu…

Fulton Tower
Fulton Tower
Scheduled monument · ~1.6 mi
Walter Baxter / CC BY-SA 2.0 / Wikimedia Commons
Bonchester Hill,earthworks
Bonchester Hill,earthworks
Scheduled monument · ~2.5 mi

Bonchester Hill is a hillfort situated in Roxburghshire, in the Scottish Borders. The earthworks occupy high ground above the settlement of Bonchester Bridge, commanding views across the surrounding agricultural landscape. The site is constructed upon bedrock of mafic igneous composition, part of…

Bonchester Hill,fort
Bonchester Hill,fort
Scheduled monument · Iron Age · ~2.6 mi

Bonchester Hill is a hillfort of Iron Age origin located in Roxburghshire in the Scottish Borders. The fort occupies a naturally prominent position on volcanic bedrock of Carboniferous to Permian age, the mafic igneous composition of which would have provided a stable foundation for defensive con…

Midshiels,standing stone
Midshiels,standing stone
Scheduled monument · Bronze Age · ~3.1 mi

Midshiels is a Bronze Age standing stone located in Roxburghshire, Scotland. The monument stands upon bedrock formed from the Hawick Group, a Silurian-age wacke deposited during the Wenlock period. This hard, resistant stone would have been familiar to the Bronze Age communities who erected the s…

Midshiels,mound
Midshiels,mound
Scheduled monument · ~3.2 mi

Midshiels Mound is a substantial earthwork located in Roxburghshire, in the Scottish Borders. The monument survives as a prominent mound constructed on bedrock of Hawick Group wacke, a hard sedimentary stone formed during the Wenlock period of the Silurian epoch. The local geology of grey-green w…

Knowesouth Burn, earthwork
Scheduled monument · ~2.8 miles
Fatlips Castle
Scheduled monument · ~3.2 miles
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