Battle of Largs (1263)

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Reference WMO/281400

Address:

The Pencil

Rockland Park

Largs

KA30 8HB

Scotland

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Status: On original site
Type: Freestanding
Setting: Outside - hilltop/field/countryside
Description: Other structure/building
Conflicts:
  • 13th Century Wars
About the memorial: It is a thin tower, 70 feet high built in 1912 to a design by J S Kay of Newton Stewart. It commemorates the Battle of Largs on 2nd October 1263. This was the deciding battle in removing the Viking Norse from control of the West Coast of Scotland by the Scots.
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