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Scoonie Parish

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

History & Significance

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

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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
What the street and field names around here actually mean, and the history buried inside them.
Historical Maps
Ordnance Survey maps from the 1800s, layered over the location as it stands today.
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Scheduled Monuments near Scoonie Parish

Pitcruvie Castle
Pitcruvie Castle
Scheduled monument · ~1.8 mi

Pitcruvie Castle is a late medieval tower house situated in Fife, Scotland. The structure dates to the sixteenth century and represents the domestic architecture typical of minor Scottish lairds during the early modern period. The castle comprises a substantial stone tower of modest proportions,…

Kilmux Colliery, beam engine house, 630m SW of Kilmux House
Kilmux Colliery, beam engine house, 630m SW of Kilmux House
Scheduled monument · ~1.8 mi

Kilmux Colliery beam engine house is a substantial industrial structure located 630 metres south-west of Kilmux House in Fife, Scotland. The building housed a beam engine, the defining technology of colliery pumping and winding operations during the 18th and 19th centuries. Such engines were esse…

Sir Andrew Wood's Tower, Largo House
Sir Andrew Wood's Tower, Largo House
Scheduled monument · ~1.9 mi

Sir Andrew Wood's Tower at Largo House is a sixteenth-century residential tower in Fife, built upon bedrock of the Clackmannan Group, sedimentary strata deposited during the Westphalian period. The tower stands as a tangible record of substantial domestic architecture from the early modern Scotti…

Maiden Castle,motte,Windygates
Maiden Castle,motte,Windygates
Scheduled monument · Medieval · ~2.7 mi

Maiden Castle, Windygates is a medieval motte situated in Fife, Scotland. The monument rises from bedrock of the Clackmannan Group, sedimentary rocks laid down during the Westphalian period. This geological foundation provided a stable base for the Norman-style earthwork defence, which comprises…

Flagstaff Hill barrow, 725m ENE of Blinkbonny
Flagstaff Hill barrow, 725m ENE of Blinkbonny
Scheduled monument · ~4.1 mi

Flagstaff Hill barrow is a Bronze Age burial mound situated 725 metres east-north-east of Blinkbonny in Fife, Scotland. The monument lies upon bedrock formed from a Permian pyroclastic intrusion, an igneous deposit that has weathered over millions of years to create the foundation of the surround…

Macduff's Castle, East Wemyss
Macduff's Castle, East Wemyss
Scheduled monument · ~4.6 mi

Macduff's Castle is a ruined stronghold occupying a rocky promontory on the Fife coast near East Wemyss. The castle stands on bedrock of the Scottish Coal Measures Group, a sequence of mudstone, siltstone and sandstone layers interspersed with coal seams, ironstone and ferricrete, dating to the M…

Standing Stones of Lundin, Lundin Links
Scheduled monument · ~0.9 miles
Largo Parish Church,cross slab
Scheduled monument · ~2.1 miles
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Battles near Scoonie Parish

Longniddry Farm
~17.1 miles away
Prestonpans, Battle of Prestonpans Monument
1745
~17.8 miles away
Battle of Prestonpans
1745
~18 miles away
First Bishops' War: Defence and Fortification of Leith, 1639
1639
~18.1 miles away
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