Battle of Black Earnside

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Reference WMO/283640

Address:

Newburgh to Gauldry Road

Near Newburgh

KY14 6HL

Scotland

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Status: On original site
Type: Non freestanding
Location: External
Setting: Roadside
Description: Board/Plaque/ Tablet
Materials:
  • Metal Metal (any)
Lettering: Inscribed on a plaque
Conflicts:
  • Anglo-Scottish Wars
About the memorial: Metal Plaque with incised lettering relating to a supposed skirmish in 1298 between Wallace and the Earl of Pembroke.. Note that other sources give the year of the battle as 1304, rather than 1298 as on the plaque. Others doubt if it happened at all and also point put that the Earldom of Pembroke was vacant in 1298. The memorial is in a layby above "Wallaces Bridge"
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BLACK EARNSIDE/12TH JUNE 1298/ON THIS SITE A MAJOR TACTICAL BATTLE WAS FOUGHT AND WON/FOR SCOTLAND BY THEIR GUARDIAN SIR WILLIAM WALLACE/AGAINST THE EARL OF PEMBROKE, WHO WAS ACTING ON THE/ORDERS OF HIS ENGLISH MASTER, EDWARD PLANTAGENET./THIS PLAQUE HAS BEEN/ERECTED BY THE PEOPLE OF NEWBURGH/IN RECOGNITION OF THE PART PLAYED/BY THEIR FOREBEARS IN ASSISTING/SIR WILLIAM WALLACE IN THE DEFENCE/OF OUR COUNTRY/YOU WERE THE FLOWER OF SCOTLAND/AND YOUR GRANDCHILDREN/THANK YOU.

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