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Sclaterford

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

History & Significance

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

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Monuments
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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
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Historical Maps
Ordnance Survey maps from the 1800s, layered over the location as it stands today.
Literature
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Scheduled Monuments near Sclaterford

Fulton Tower
Fulton Tower
Scheduled monument · ~1 mi
Walter Baxter / CC BY-SA 2.0 / Wikimedia Commons
Bonchester Hill,earthworks
Bonchester Hill,earthworks
Scheduled monument · ~1.4 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…

Rubers Law,fort & Roman signal station
Rubers Law,fort & Roman signal station
Scheduled monument · Iron Age · ~1.6 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…

Bonchester Hill,fort
Bonchester Hill,fort
Scheduled monument · Iron Age · ~1.6 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…

Dykeraw Tower,Southdean
Dykeraw Tower,Southdean
Scheduled monument · ~3.6 mi

Dykeraw Tower is a sixteenth-century fortified tower house located in Southdean, Roxburghshire, in the Scottish Borders. The tower stands on bedrock of the Hawick Group, a formation of tough wacke stone laid down during the Wenlock period of the Silurian era, which provided the locality with exce…

Southdean Church
Southdean Church
Scheduled monument · ~3.6 mi

Southdean Church is a medieval parish church located in Roxburghshire in the Scottish Borders. The structure dates from the medieval period and stands as evidence of ecclesiastical settlement in this region during the Middle Ages. The church has been designated as an ancient monument reflecting i…

Iron Castle,earthwork
Scheduled monument · ~2.1 miles
Kilnsike Tower
Scheduled monument · ~2.2 miles
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Battles near Sclaterford

Bloody Bush
~14.5 miles away
'Dexastan'
~15.5 miles away
Pictish Attack on Hadrian's Wall Outpost Forts, 180 AD
180
~16.1 miles away
Liddesdale Clearing — Elliot and Armstrong Hunts 1602
1602
~16.7 miles away
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