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Archaeology Notes
Event ID 713098
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/713098
NT26NE 5 2546 6835.
(NT 2546 6835) Site of Encampment (NR)
1650 (Oliver Cromwell's)
OS 6" map (1938)
Cromwell's army of just under 16,500 men encamped on Galachlaw, during his campaigns in the vicinity of Edinburgh in 1650. The camp was occupied on the 13th- 14th August, and again from 18th-27th August. It was re-occupied by him briefly in June 1651.
No remains of any work were visible in 1852, but Whyte notes 'the very places where their tents were pitched are still visible'.
W S Douglas 1898; Name Book 1852; T Whyte 1792
No trace.
Visited by OS (JFC) 18 December 1953
