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Invernahavon

Battle Site (14th Century)

Site Name Invernahavon

Classification Battle Site (14th Century)

Canmore ID 24630

Site Number NN69NE 2

NGR NN 689 962

Datum OSGB36 - NGR

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  • Council Highland
  • Parish Kingussie And Insh
  • Former Region Highland
  • Former District Badenoch And Strathspey
  • Former County Inverness-shire

Archaeology Notes

NN69NE 2 689 962.

(Name: NN 689 962) Site of Battle of Invernahavon (NR)

Fought AD. 1386

OS 6"map, Inverness, 2nd ed., (1903)

The scene of a clan battle between the MacKintoshes and Camerons, in the reign of James I, caused by the refusal of certain Camerons to pay their rents on property in Lochaber owned by the MacKintoshes.

The site at Invernahavon is near the junction of the rivers Spey and Truim.

G Anderson 1834.

No further information.

Visited by OS (NK B) 28 September 1965.

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