Archaeology Notes

Event ID 649006

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NC50NE 12 574 057.

(NC 574 057) Conflict of Gruids (NR) (Site of)

OS 6" map, Sutherlandshire, 2nd ed., (1908)

Conflict of Gruids - "This name applies to the site of the 'Battle of Gruids' which took place between AD 1519 and 1522 in which Alexander, Master of Sutherland, defeated John MacKay of Strathnaver.

Name Book 1873.

No further information was obtained during field investigation.

Visited by OS (W D J) 20 June 1963.