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retains the name of Gib's Croft. This battle in which Banquo acted as General of the King's
forces Macbeth being absent maKing levies was fought about the middle of the 11th Century
For the issue and consequences of the battle and the artifice by which the Danes are said
to have been afterwards overthrown near Perth, vide Buchanan, lib. [library] 7 Cap. 5 [Caput -Chaprter] & 6
Old Stat. Acct. [Statistical Account] vol. [volume] 10 p. [page] 147 - 8

Sueno or Swain King of Norway emulous of his brother's Glory crossed the seas with a great Navy
and landed in Fife. Upon the news of his coming Macbeth was sent to levy an army while
Bancho the other general remained with the King. Duncan, or Donald, as if just roused from
a slumber of indolence was forced to go and meet the enemy. They fought near Culross with such ob-
stinate courage that as one party was scarecely able to fly so the other had no heart to persue. The
Scots who looked upon themselves as overcome rather by their incommodiousness of the place than
by the valour of their enemies retreated to Perth anbd there staid with the remains if the con-
quered forces, watching the motions of their adversaries. tc.
Buchanan's Hist. [History] of Scotland by WalKins page 144