OS1/13/73/11A

Continued entries/extra info

11a [Loose Item attached to Page 11 Parish of Dunfermline]

Supposed Site of Battle - Continued. "There is no account of any remarkable battle within the parish. There was a small skirmish upon the Ferry Hills, between the Scots and English in Oliver Cromwells time. The great and severe engagement upon the following day, which was maintained with so much obstinacy and slaughter on both sides, and terminated in the defeat of the Scots, was indeed begun near this town, upon a place called Hillfield; but the Scots retreating, it was chiefly fought upon the opposite bank of Masterton, which though not far distant, lies in the parish of Dunfermline" Old Stat. Acct. [Statistical Account]