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Pitalpin

Battle Site (Early Medieval)(Possible)

Site Name Pitalpin

Classification Battle Site (Early Medieval)(Possible)

Canmore ID 31944

Site Number NO33SE 4

NGR NO 3800 3278

Datum OSGB36 - NGR

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  • Council Dundee, City Of
  • Parish Dundee (Dundee, City Of)
  • Former Region Tayside
  • Former District City Of Dundee
  • Former County Angus

Archaeology Notes

NO33SE 4 3800 3278.

(Name NO 3800 3278) Site of Battle (NR) Supposed, between the Picts and the Scots, 9th Century (NAT)

OS 6" map, Forfarshire, 2nd ed., (1926)

Confused accounts are given by early historians of a battle of Pitalpin but they do not agree either on the participants or the date.

Modern historians do not even quote a battle here.

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