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Strath Oykel

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

History & Significance

Strath Oykel 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 Strath Oykel lies on Morar Group, bedrock that formed in the Neoproterozoic. The rock here is psammite.

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

Langwell,fort and dun 500m WSW of
Langwell,fort and dun 500m WSW of
Scheduled monument · Iron Age · ~0.8 mi

Langwell Fort and Dun is an Iron Age fortified settlement situated 500 metres west-south-west of Langwell in Ross-shire, northern Scotland. The monument comprises two distinct defensive structures typical of this period: a fort and a dun, representing different scales of fortification that may ha…

Cnoc Chaornaidh, chambered cairn 590m SW of
Cnoc Chaornaidh, chambered cairn 590m SW of
Scheduled monument · Neolithic · ~7.8 mi

Cnoc Chaornaidh is a Neolithic chambered cairn located in Ross-shire in the Scottish Highlands. The monument stands on bedrock of the Morar Group, Neoproterozoic psammite, a metamorphic sandstone that forms much of the underlying geology of this region. The site is protected as a scheduled monume…

Cnoc Chaornaidh, chambered cairn 570m WSW of
Cnoc Chaornaidh, chambered cairn 570m WSW of
Scheduled monument · Neolithic · ~7.9 mi

Cnoc Chaornaidh is a Neolithic chambered cairn located in Ross-shire in the Scottish Highlands. The monument stands at approximately 570 metres west-south-west of its reference point on bedrock of the Durness Group, a distinctive geological formation of dolostone dating to the Whiterock period. T…

Dail Langwell, broch 1675m NW of Croich
Scheduled monument · Iron Age · ~7 miles
Allt Eileag, chambered cairn 790m SE of Cnoc Chaornaidh
Scheduled monument · Neolithic · ~7.3 miles
Garbh Ath Chaoruinn, chambered cairn 1km ENE of Cnoc Chaornaidh
Scheduled monument · Neolithic · ~7.4 miles
Cnoc Chaornaidh, chambered cairn 175m NNE of Stratheskie
Scheduled monument · Neolithic · ~8.1 miles
Loch Ailsh, chambered cairn 920m SE of Strathseasgaich
Scheduled monument · Neolithic · ~8.2 miles
In the same landscape

Battles near Strath Oykel

Battle of Tuiteam Tarbhach
1406
~2.4 miles away
Battle of Tuiteam Tarbhach (Tutim), 1406
1406
~2.4 miles away
Battle of Aldy Charrish
1487
~5.5 miles away
Carbisdale Farm
~10.9 miles away
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