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Battle of Dun Nechtain
The Battle of Dun Nechtain or Battle of Nechtansmere (Scottish Gaelic: "Blàr Dhùn Neachdain", Old Irish: "Dún Nechtain", Old Welsh: "Gueith Linn Garan", Old English: "Nechtansmere") was fought between the Picts, led by King Bridei Mac Bili, and the Northumbrians, led by King Ecgfrith, on 20 May 685.
The Northumbrian hegemony over Northern Britain, won by Ecgfrith's predecessors, had begun to disintegrate. Several of Northumbria's subject nations
Nechtain.
Cruickshank's interpretation, published in 1985, 1300 years after the Battle of Dun Nechtain, received general acceptance, although he has been criticised for his suggestions that the stone was created soon after the battle in 685, when the conventional view at the time was that it was sculpted a century later.
The subsequent identification of Dunachton in Badenoch as a second candidate for the site of the battle, and the revised dating of the stone to the mid 9th century has weakened Cruickshank's argument somewhat, and alternative