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Battle of Summerdale

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to kill the first Orcadian they came across. Seeing a boy herding cattle, William Sinclair ordered his men to kill him, but once the boy was dead, he was recognised as a native of Caithness who had taken refuge in Orkney some time before. Tradition has it that this unnerved them, and contributed to their subsequent defeat.
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encountered a witch. This witch unwound two balls of wool as they marched, one red and one blue. The red ball ran out first and the witch informed William Sinclair that this meant the side whose blood was spilt first would be defeated. Sinclair supposedly put great faith in the prophecy, and decided
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refuted this on the grounds of their antiquity. Barry, writing in 1805, also noted that bodies had been very recently discovered in the adjacent marsh, which the Caithness men had been pursued through before the battle, with their clothes surviving in a remarkably well preserved condition. An
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excavation of one of the mounds by F. G. Wainwright in 1960 showed a disturbance of the contents, which was concluded to indicate a previous excavation "in search of treasure or information", but did not rule out the possibility it was to inter the bodies of the Caithnessmen.
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In another tradition, the land where the battle was fought was said to have been smooth grass without stones until the day of the battle. However, that morning so many stones had appeared that the Orcadians dropped the
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they were armed with and threw these stones at the oncoming Caithness men, preventing them from getting close enough to attack and eventually forcing them to flee, with the Orcadians in close pursuit.
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Communication between the Orcadians and people of Caithness completely broke down after the battle, and animosity between the two persisted for over three centuries after this.
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The Saint-Clairs of the Isles; being a history of the sea-kings of Orkney and their Scottish successors of the sirname of Sinclair
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The Saint-Clairs of the Isles; being a history of the sea-kings of Orkney and their Scottish successors of the sirname of Sinclair
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sent the Caithness Sinclairs to fight against the Sinclairs of Orkney in order to win back control of the Orkney Islands. The
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Sinclairs were all slain apart from one man, and only one Orcadian boy was killed. According to Roland Saint-Clair,
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was killed with 500 men, and William Sinclair, 5th Lord Sinclair and others were taken prisoner.
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in the area of the battle are said to be the graves of the fallen Caithnessmen, though
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Ashmore, P. J. "Excavations at Summersdale, Orkney, by F G Wainwright in July 1960".
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On the other hand, the Orcadians were said to be supported by the Christian
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soil. The battle took place on the boundary of the parishes of
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William Sinclair, 5th Lord Sinclair and others taken prisoner
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The battle was said to have been fought in 1527 by Jo Ben's
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Orphir
Stenness
Mainland, Orkney
Scotland
58°58′37.6″N 03°08′25.8″W / 58.977111°N 3.140500°W / 58.977111; -3.140500 (battle site)
Clan Sinclair
James V of Scotland
John Sinclair, 3rd Earl of Caithness

William Sinclair, 5th Lord Sinclair
Orkney
Orphir
Stenness
Mainland, Orkney
Kirkwall
Caithness
James V
Orkney Islands
the former Earldom
tacksmen
Henry Sinclair, 4th Lord Sinclair
William Sinclair, 5th Lord Sinclair
Caithness
Kirkwall Castle
James V of Scotland
Caithness
John Sinclair, 3rd Earl of Caithness
Orphir

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