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alexmaclennan
Joined: 24 Jul 2007 Posts: 151 Location: Just West of Glasgow
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Posted: Wed Oct 24, 2007 4:04 am Post subject: Largs Pencil, Battle of Largs 1263 |
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This shoreside memorial betwen the town of Largs and the Yacht Haven to the south is a well known local landmark. It is a thin tower, 70 feet high built in 1912 to a design by JS 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.
http://www.battlefieldstrust.com/resource-centre/medieval/battleview.asp?BattleFieldId=67
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Adam Brown Curator
Joined: 14 Dec 2006 Posts: 7312 Location: Edinburgh (From Sutherland)
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Posted: Sat Jun 21, 2008 7:33 am Post subject: |
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As this memorial commemorates a battle I'm moving it from the 'civic' section to the 'other' section
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stuartn
Joined: 13 Dec 2016 Posts: 2551
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Posted: Thu Jun 29, 2017 7:30 pm Post subject: |
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This is now WMR, ex UKNIWM, memorial 44615 |
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