Archaeology Notes

Event ID 653920

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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ND15SE 12 1782 5424.

(ND 1782 5424) Supposed Site of Battle (NR)

OS 6" map, Caithness, 2nd ed., (1907)

Torfaeus (1866) says this is the site of the Battle of Skida Mire, between Liotus Earl of Orkney and his brother, Sculius, for the Earldom of Caithness, during the reign of Malcolm I (943-54).

The New Statistical Account (NSA, 1845) says the battle took place at Kilmster in Bower parish.

NSA 1845; T Torfaeus 1866; Name Book 1871; RCAHMS 1911.