When did Clearie Woods take place?

Clearie Woods took place in an uncertain year, Scotland.

Who won Clearie Woods?

The victor at Clearie Woods is disputed or unrecorded in the surviving sources.

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Clearie Woods

Scotland

Era

Unknown Era

Battle Type

Pitched Battle

Location

Scotland

Status

Unregistered

The Battle

History & Significance

Clearie Woods 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 Clearie Woods 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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Overview

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Monuments

The legally protected scheduled monuments around the location, each with its period, type and significance.

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.

Literature

The books, county histories, charters and archives that mention this place, quoted with their sources.

Legal

The protected sites nearby and the metal-detecting, access and treasure laws that apply to this ground.

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Protected heritage nearby

Scheduled Monuments near Clearie Woods

Camus's Cross, cross 270 ENE of Downie Hills Cottage

Scheduled monument · ~1.4 mi

Camus's Cross is an ancient cross monument located approximately 270 metres east-north-east of Downie Hills Cottage in Angus, Scotland. The cross represents an important example of early Christian or medieval religious architecture in the region, typical of the stone crosses that were erected thr…

D Lloyd / CC BY-SA 3.0 / Wikimedia Commons

Affleck Castle

Scheduled monument · ~2.5 mi

Affleck Castle is a late medieval tower house located in Angus, Scotland, dating from the fifteenth century. The castle comprises a five-storey rectangular keep with corner turrets, constructed in a typically Scottish defensive style characteristic of the period. Built by the Affleck family, whos…

Carlungie, souterrain 160m WNW of

Scheduled monument · Iron Age · ~2.7 mi

Carlungie is a souterrain, an Iron Age underground stone-lined passage constructed beneath what would have been a settlement site in Angus, Scotland. The monument lies approximately 160 metres west-north-west of Carlungie itself and represents a form of settlement structure widely distributed acr…

PaulT (Gunther Tschuch) / CC BY-SA 4.0 / Wikimedia Commons

Greenlawhill, unenclosed settlement

Scheduled monument · ~3.2 mi

Greenlawhill is an unenclosed settlement located in Angus, Scotland. The site comprises scattered domestic structures characteristic of Iron Age and early medieval settlement patterns in eastern Scotland, where communities organised their dwellings without the defensive boundaries typical of encl…

Hare Cairn, cairn, Bractullo Muir

Scheduled monument · ~3.3 mi

Hare Cairn is a cairn situated on Bractullo Muir in Angus, Scotland. This Bronze Age burial monument consists of a mound of stone constructed on moorland bedrock of Arbuthnott-Garvock Group sandstone, laid down during the Pragian period over 400 million years ago. The underlying geology of sandst…

Ardestie, souterrain 400m NW of Mains of Ardestie

Scheduled monument · Iron Age · ~3.8 mi

Ardestie is a souterrain situated 400 metres north-west of Mains of Ardestie in Angus, Scotland. This Iron Age underground structure is protected by Historic Environment Scotland as a scheduled monument under reference SM90021. Souterrains are distinctive subterranean passages, typically associat…

Panmure Castle and Moat

Scheduled monument · ~1.5 miles

Pitcundrum, enclosure 700m S of

Scheduled monument · Post-Medieval · ~2 miles

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~5.9 miles away

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Sources

Clearie Woods · Canmore

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