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| Site of the Battle of | Battle of Flodden | Revd Robert Jones | On Sheets | This was called the battle of Flodden | ||
| Flodden Field or | (Site of) | Mr A Rankin | 9.16 | by the Scots, from their Camp being | ||
| Branxton Moor | Mr A Turnbull | 10.13 | a few days on that position, and | |||
| (Sept 9th 1513) | 13.4 & | that of Branxton Moor by the English | ||||
| Site of the Battle} | Considered the best | 14.1 | Speeds map of Northumberland 1610 | |||
| of Flodden Field } | arrangement of the | and others would place it near the | ||||
| or } | name – See Description | farm Stead of Mardon, but recent | ||||
| Branxton Moor } | condensed from a | discoveries and careful examination | ||||
| (Sept 9th 1513) } | small but carefully written | of the ground by those competent to | ||||
| account of the Battle | judge would place it to the west of | |||||
| by Robert White of | that place, in the Churchyard of | |||||
| Newcastle – 1859 | the village large quantities of bones | |||||
| including those of Horses were found | ||||||
| about a foot below the surface. | ||||||
| On the low marshy ground near the | ||||||
| source of Pallins Burn, a cannon | ||||||
| ball of lead was found weighing 13 | ||||||
| pounds: and another was dug up west | ||||||
| of Branxton Hill, one of iron was | ||||||
| found near the Church | ||||||
| This battle so disastrous to Scot- | ||||||
| land was fought 9th Sept 1513 in | ||||||
| which the King and nearly all the | ||||||
| nobility and gentry of the land | ||||||
| perished | ||||||
| King James the IVth of Scotland with his Army crossed the Tweed | ||||||
| and invaded England on the 22nd day of August 1513. After | ||||||
| reducing the Castles of Norham, Wark, Etal and Ford | ||||||
| William Boyd CA | ||||||
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