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Tealing Airfield, Battle H.Q.

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

History & Significance

Tealing Airfield, Battle H.Q. 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 Tealing Airfield, Battle H.Q. lies on Arbuthnott-Garvock Group, bedrock that formed in the Pragian. The rock here is sandstone with subordinate conglomerate, siltstone and mudstone.

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Scheduled Monuments near Tealing Airfield, Battle H.Q.

Craig Hill,fort and broch
Craig Hill,fort and broch
Scheduled monument · Iron Age · ~1.8 mi

Craig Hill, Angus is an Iron Age fort and broch situated on sandstone bedrock of the Arbuttnott-Garvock Group. The site occupies a naturally defensive hilltop location in Angus, where Pragian-age geology of sandstone, conglomerate, siltstone and mudstone provided a stable foundation for its const…

Dundee and Newtyle Railway,embankment N of Baldragon
Dundee and Newtyle Railway,embankment N of Baldragon
Scheduled monument · ~2.4 mi

Dundee and Newtyle Railway embankment north of Baldragon is a section of railway infrastructure surviving from the early nineteenth-century expansion of transport links in eastern Scotland. The embankment runs across Angus, constructed to carry the railway on a level course across the undulating…

South Auchray, fort 300m NE of
South Auchray, fort 300m NE of
Scheduled monument · Iron Age · ~3.1 mi

South Auchray is an Iron Age fort situated near Glamis in Angus, north-east Scotland. The fort occupies ground underlain by Arbuttnott-Garvock Group sandstones and associated siltstones deposited during the Pragian period, geology that has shaped both the site's natural drainage and its defensive…

North Gates, mortuary enclosure and circular enclosure 135m ESE of
North Gates, mortuary enclosure and circular enclosure 135m ESE of
Scheduled monument · Post-Medieval · ~4.1 mi

North Gates mortuary enclosure and circular enclosure is a post-medieval funerary monument situated in Angus, Scotland. The site comprises two distinct earthwork features: a mortuary enclosure and an adjacent circular enclosure, located 135 metres east-south-east of the main settlement. These str…

St Bride's Ring, dun 250m W of Kingennie House
St Bride's Ring, dun 250m W of Kingennie House
Scheduled monument · Iron Age · ~4.3 mi

St Bride's Ring is a Iron Age dun situated 250 metres west of Kingennie House in Angus, Scotland. The monument stands on bedrock of mafic igneous origin, formed during the Early Devonian period as part of an unnamed intrusion of Late Silurian to Early Devonian age. This underlying geology of dark…

Arniefoul, cairn 820m NE of
Arniefoul, cairn 820m NE of
Scheduled monument · ~4.6 mi

Arniefoul is a cairn situated on high ground in Angus, Scotland, approximately 820 metres north-east of the settlement from which it takes its name. The monument stands on bedrock of the Arbuthnott-Garvock Group, Pragian sandstone interspersed with conglomerate, siltstone and mudstone, geology th…

Tealing, souterrain
Scheduled monument · Iron Age · ~0.5 miles
Tealing,dovecot
Scheduled monument · ~0.5 miles
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Battles near Tealing Airfield, Battle H.Q.

Dundee Law
~3.9 miles away
Jacobite seizure of Dundee 1715
1715
~4.4 miles away
Siege of Dundee
1651
~4.4 miles away
Wallace's Siege of Dundee Castle, 1297 (English Surrender)
1297
~4.6 miles away
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