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Archaeology Notes
Event ID 729029
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/729029
NY16NE 18 1650 6557.
(NY 1650 6557) Bruce's Acre (NAT)
OS 6" map (1945)
On the farm of Broom (NY16NE 58.01) there is a field called Bruce's Acres where it is said that Robert Bruce...sustained a severe repulse from the English. A quantity of human bones and several swords were lately found in a moss near the field where the battle is said to have been fought.
New Statistical Account (NSA) 1845 (G Gillespie).
