Archaeology Notes

Event ID 700796

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NS42NE 4 4970 2636.

(NS 4970 2636) Site of (NAT)

Battle of Mauchline Muir (NR) 1648

OS 6" map (1967)

A skirmish took place here in 1648 (the New Statistical Account [NSA]) gives about 1647) between Middleton's troop and a body of Covenanters. The result was rather uncertain, though the latter are traditionally said to have won.

J T Gibb 1911; NSA 1845 (J Tod); Name Book 1856