Rullion Green, 'covenanters' Encampment'
Encampment (17th Century)(Possible)
Site Name Rullion Green, 'covenanters' Encampment'
Classification Encampment (17th Century)(Possible)
Alternative Name(s) Battle Of Rullion Green
Canmore ID 51862
Site Number NT26SW 11
NGR NT 2210 6224
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/51862
- Council Midlothian
- Parish Glencorse
- Former Region Lothian
- Former District Midlothian
- Former County Midlothian
NT26SW 11 2210 6224
(NT 2210 6224) Covenanters' Encampment (NR) (Site of).
OS 6" map (1854)
(NT 2221 6226) Covenanters' Encampment (NR) (Site of).
OS 6" map (1908)
See also NT26SW 8 and NT26SW 10.
The site where the Covenanters camped before the battle of Rullion Green. The appearances as of the track of eight tents are distinctly visible.
Name Book 1852
There was no encampment as such. The Covenanters only bivouacked in the area.
J K Hewison 1908; C S Terry 1905; M Sidgwick 1906
As suggested above, there are no signs of any encampment in the area. The 'track of eight tents' are ring enclosures (NT26SW 8).
Visited by OS (RD) 2 February 1970
Field Visit (20 August 1913)
Earthen Circles, Lawhead Hill.
On the eastern slope of Lawhead Hill, about 500 yards from Lawhead fort [NT26SW 7] and about the same distance west of the farm of Rullion Green, immediately to the south of a belt of trees, in rough ground, seven earthen circles can be traced, five of them forming an irregular line from north -east to south-west, and two lying a short distance to the east. The best preserved of these is the most northerly, where the central area, 9 feet in diameter, is surrounded by a low bank 6 feet broad, with a shallow trench, 4 feet broad, outside, the diameter over all being 29 feet. In the other examples the bank is less noticeable; four have overall an average diameter of 28 feet.
Immediately to the north of these earthen circles is the position marked on the map ‘Site of Covenanters' Camp’, the camp being that before the battle of Rullion Green, 28 Nov. 1666. As, however, the Covenanters merely bivouacked near Rullion Green on the morning of that day, and the battle took place in the afternoon it is not in the least likely that these constructions have any connection with that occasion.
RCAHMS 1929, visited 20 August 1913
OS map: xiii N.W.
