Question reference: S3W-18005
- Asked by: Keith Brown, MSP for Ochil, Scottish National Party
- Date lodged: 20 November 2008
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Current status: Answered by Linda Fabiani on 2 December 2008
Question
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it believes that the Sheriffmuir battlefield in Stirlingshire (a) is associated with historical events or figures of national significance, (b) has significant physical remains or archaeological potential, (c) has a clear landscape context that allows the events of the battle to be understood or interpreted and (d) is capable of definition on a map.
Answer
Ministers have yet to finalise the criteria for inclusion of a battlefield on any Inventory and to develop guidance for assessing a battlefield against the criteria. At that stage, it will be possible to consider how well individual sites meet the criteria in a systematic, comparable and transparent way. It would therefore be premature at present to offer a view on any individual site, however well-established its contribution is to the history of our nation.