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List of names as written | Various modes of spelling | Authorities for spelling | Situation | Description remarks |
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Site of BATTLE (Supposed to have been between the Danes and Scots) [W of Cromarty] | Battlefield (Supposed site of) Battlefield (Supposed site of) Battlefield (Supposed site of) Battlefield (Supposed site of) |
Mr James Ross Farmer Glenurquhart, Cromarty Rev. [Reverend] G Russel Manse Cromarty P Grant Esq Banker, Fortrose Statistical Account of the parish of Cromarty dated 1841 |
078 | This name is applied to the site of an Ancient Battlefield Situated about four and one half miles to the West of the Town of Cromarty, no information can be obtained regarding this Battle except that tradition says the Danes & Scots were the parties engaged in the Conflict, some of the older inhabitants in the Neighbourhood Say that Several Small cairns were to be seen upon the moor where this battle is supposed to have been fought but no traces of such now remain as the whole is either planted or under Cultivation. Lieut Col. [Lieutenant Colonel] Ross Cromarty House proprietor |
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