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East Fortune Airfield, Battle H.Q.

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

History & Significance

East Fortune 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 East Fortune Airfield, Battle H.Q. lies on Unnamed Extrusive Rocks, Dinantian, bedrock that formed in the Mississippian. The rock here is mafic lava and mafic tuff.

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Protected heritage nearby

Scheduled Monuments near East Fortune Airfield, Battle H.Q.

Barnes Castle,The Vaults
Barnes Castle,The Vaults
Scheduled monument · ~1.5 mi

Barnes Castle, The Vaults is a rock-cut chamber of medieval date located in East Lothian, Scotland. The vaults are hewn directly into the Dinantian extrusive rocks that form the bedrock of this locality, a geological formation of felsic lava and tuff deposited during the Mississippian period. The…

Calum McRoberts / CC BY-SA 2.0 / Wikimedia Commons
Waughton Castle
Waughton Castle
Scheduled monument · ~2.1 mi

Waughton Castle is a fifteenth-century tower house located in East Lothian, Scotland. The structure represents the domestic and defensive architecture typical of the Scottish lowlands during the late medieval period, when such fortified residences served as seats of local landholding families. Th…

Garleton Castle
Garleton Castle
Scheduled monument · ~2.3 mi

Garleton Castle is a late medieval fortified tower house situated in East Lothian, Scotland. The castle dates to the fifteenth or sixteenth century and represents the domestic architecture typical of the Scottish borders and lowlands during this period. The structure comprises a rectangular stone…

Lisa Jarvis / CC BY-SA 2.0 / Wikimedia Commons
Kingston Hill, multiperiod cemetery
Kingston Hill, multiperiod cemetery
Scheduled monument · ~2.4 mi

Kingston Hill is a multiperiod cemetery located in East Lothian, Scotland. The site has yielded evidence of human burial across multiple periods, reflecting the longstanding importance of this location for the dead. The cemetery sits upon Dinantian extrusive rocks of Mississippian age, comprising…

Hailes Castle
Hailes Castle
Scheduled monument · ~2.5 mi

Hailes Castle is a medieval fortress situated near Dunbar in East Lothian, dating principally to the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. The castle comprises a substantial stone keep and curtain wall remains, reflecting its strategic importance as a stronghold in the Lothian region during the me…

Balgone Barns,windmill NW of
Balgone Barns,windmill NW of
Scheduled monument · ~2.8 mi

Balgone Barns windmill is a stone-built mill standing in East Lothian, in the southeastern Scottish Lowlands. The monument occupies ground underlain by the Inverclyde Group, a geological formation of Carboniferous age comprising sandstone, siltstone and mudstone that provided both stable foundati…

East Fortune,airfield
Scheduled monument · ~0.7 miles
West Fortune,palisaded enclosure 500m N of
Scheduled monument · Post-Medieval · ~1 miles
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