When did Fanans take place?

Fanans took place in an uncertain year, Scotland.

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

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Fanans

Scotland

Era

Unknown Era

Battle Type

Pitched Battle

Location

Scotland

Status

Unregistered

The Battle

History & Significance

Fanans 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 Fanans lies on Unnamed Extrusive Rocks, Silurian To Devonian, bedrock that formed in the Devonian. The rock here is felsic lava and felsic tuff.

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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

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Protected heritage nearby

Scheduled Monuments near Fanans

Bonawe, Iron Furnace

Scheduled monument · ~2.3 mi

Bonawe Iron Furnace is a charcoal-fuelled iron smelting works located in Argyllshire, Scotland, established in the mid-eighteenth century as part of the expanding British iron industry. The furnace was constructed around 1753 by English ironmasters to exploit the local abundance of charcoal from…

Bubobubo2 / CC BY-SA 3.0 / Wikimedia Commons

Fraoch Eilean,castle

Scheduled monument · Medieval · ~5 mi

Fraoch Eilean is a medieval castle situated in Argyllshire, Scotland, occupying an island position that provided natural defensive advantages. The castle stands upon bedrock of the Argyll Group, metamorphic rocks formed during the Neoproterozoic era, comprising psammite, semipelite and pelite dep…

Kilchurn Castle, Dalmally

Scheduled monument · ~5.9 mi

Kilchurn Castle is a fifteenth-century stronghold located on a peninsula jutting into Loch Awe in Dalmally, Argyllshire, Scotland. Built by the Campbell clan, the castle comprises a five-storey tower house with adjoining structures and fortifications that reflect its development across several ce…

Glenorchy Parish Church, churchyard and tombstones

Scheduled monument · Medieval · ~8.1 mi

Glenorchy Parish Church, churchyard and tombstones is a medieval burial ground in Argyllshire, Scotland, protected as a scheduled monument by Historic Environment Scotland. The site occupies ground underlain by metamorphic rocks of the Argyll Group, ancient psammites and pelites formed during the…

Clach na Carraig,standing stone & cairn 450m S of Strontoiller

Scheduled monument · Bronze Age · ~8.1 mi

Clach na Carraig is a Bronze Age standing stone and cairn located 450 metres south of Strontoiller in Argyllshire, Scotland. The monument stands on bedrock of Silurian to Devonian age, comprising unnamed extrusive rocks of mafic composition—ancient lava flows and tuffs formed during the Devonian…

Colin Kinnear / CC BY-SA 2.0 / Wikimedia Commons

Strontoiller,stone circle 280m SSW of

Scheduled monument · Bronze Age · ~8.1 mi

Strontoiller is a Bronze Age stone circle located in Argyllshire, Scotland, situated 280 metres south-south-west of the settlement from which it takes its name. The monument stands upon bedrock of mafic lava and tuff formed during the Devonian period, part of the Silurian to Devonian extrusive vo…

Tom an Iasgaire, fort

Scheduled monument · Iron Age · ~0.6 miles

Dun Mhuirageul,dun SE of Taynuilt

Scheduled monument · Iron Age · ~1.7 miles

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Sources

Fanans · Canmore

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