Archaeology Notes

Event ID 731331

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NY18SW 8 117 829.

(Name centred: NY 117 829) site of Battle of Dryfesands (NR) Between Maxwells of Nithsdale & Johnstones of Annandale (AD 1593) (NAT)

OS 6" map (1957)

The last battle of any importance between Scottish border clans was on 6 or 7 December 1593, when the Maxwells of Nithsdale were defeated by the Johnstones of Annandale at Dryfesands.

RCAHMS 1920; T Henderson 1930.