OS1/14/22/28

Continued entries/extra info

[Page] 28

[Battle between Picts and Scots]

[continued from page 27]
been raised according to ancient usage over those who fell in the battle. It was opened in
or about 1810 but nothing but earth and stones were discovered. A smaller tumulus was removed
in one of the fields of Dryburgh at a short distance westwards about the year 1787 within which seven
stone coffins or graves lined with stones were found. These were conjectured to have been the graves of a
a like number of Picts of distinction who had fallen in the battle for it cannot be supposed that
they were formed by the dispersed and dispirited Scots, whereas the Picts being masters of the field
had leisure to enable them to celebrate the obsequies of their fallen chiefs with all the customary
funeral rites and ceremonies then in use. - Thomson's Hist. [History] of Dundee pp. [pages] 365. 366.

There is a tradition noticed in Maules Hist. [History] of the Picts, that when Brude or Brudas had en-
-camped with the Pictish force on the Tothelbrow, in the parish of Strathmartine about 4 miles to the
northward of the Law the Scottish army was encamped on the Law, and that a dreadful battle
ensued in the plain, the Picts being instigated with a desire of revenging the wrongs committed
upon them the former year by Alpine who had entered Lothian, the territory of the Picts and pepetrated
the greatest cruelties and the Scots being no less disposed to defend their King and their country from
the attacks of an exasperated enemy. After a desperate struggle, Alpine was conquered taken prisoner and
beheaded in Pitalpy in 834. - New Stat. Acct. [Statistical Account] of Forfarshire p [page] 16.

  Transcribers who have contributed to this page.

Alison James- Moderator, Iain496

  Location information for this page.

  There are no linked mapsheets.