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Wallace's Thorn

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

History & Significance

Wallace's Thorn 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 Wallace's Thorn lies on Hawick Group, bedrock that formed in the Wenlock. The rock here is wacke.

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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.
Local Names
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Historical Maps
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Scheduled Monuments near Wallace's Thorn

Murder Loch,Roman fortlet 120m NNW of Ivy Cottage
Murder Loch,Roman fortlet 120m NNW of Ivy Cottage
Scheduled monument · Iron Age · ~1.7 mi

Murder Loch is a Roman fortlet located 120 metres north-north-west of Ivy Cottage in Dumfriesshire, Scotland. The site sits upon bedrock of the Hawick Group, a Wenlock-age wacke formation that provided the local stone for Roman construction in this region. Protected by Historic Environment Scotla…

West Gallaberry,Roman camp & native promontory settlement
West Gallaberry,Roman camp & native promontory settlement
Scheduled monument · Roman · ~2.8 mi

West Gallaberry is a Roman camp and native promontory settlement in Dumfriesshire, Scotland. The site occupies a naturally defended position on Early Permian bedrock of the Stewartry Group, comprising sandstone, breccia and conglomerate. This geological foundation provided stable ground for both…

Carzield,Roman fort
Carzield,Roman fort
Scheduled monument · Iron Age · ~2.8 mi

Carzield is a Roman fort situated in Dumfriesshire in south-western Scotland. The site occupies ground underlain by the Stewartry Group, a geological formation of Early Permian age composed of sandstone, breccia and conglomerate that would have provided stable foundations for the fort's construct…

Dalswinton Mains,ring ditch and pit alignments
Dalswinton Mains,ring ditch and pit alignments
Scheduled monument · ~3.9 mi

Dalswinton Mains ring ditch and pit alignments is a Bronze Age ceremonial and domestic monument in Dumfriesshire, southern Scotland. The site comprises a substantial ring ditch—a circular earthwork that once enclosed a timber structure—alongside linear alignments of pits extending across the land…

Bankfoot,Roman camps & forts,Dalswinton
Bankfoot,Roman camps & forts,Dalswinton
Scheduled monument · Iron Age · ~4.3 mi

Bankfoot Roman camps and forts is a complex of Roman military sites located near Dalswinton in Dumfriesshire, south-west Scotland. The monument comprises multiple camps and fortifications constructed during the Roman occupation of Britain, reflecting the strategic importance of this location in t…

Torthorwald Castle
Torthorwald Castle
Scheduled monument · ~4.3 mi

Torthorwald Castle is a motte-and-bailey fortress located in Dumfriesshire, south-western Scotland, dating to the Norman period following the twelfth century. The monument consists of a substantial earthen mound with an associated bailey, representing a characteristic form of early medieval milit…

Barrs Hill,fort
Scheduled monument · Iron Age · ~1 miles
Shaw's Moor,cairnfield and ring-cairn S of Hospital Wood
Scheduled monument · ~3.4 miles
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1510
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