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The castle in Northumberland sits on a basalt outcrop overlooking the Farne Islands and Lindisfarne
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The anniversary on 9th September of the Battle of Flodden in Northumberland.
It took place eight miles north west of Wooler near the village of Branxton on the 9th September 1513 during the reign of Henry VIII.
Scottish King James IV invaded northern England and at this spot 14,000 men died in 2 hours, a rate of slaughter that exceeds the first hour of English casualties at the Battle of the Somme in the First World War.
The Battle of Flodden was a decisive victory for the English. For the Scots it was a huge disaster, with many of the most important members of Scottish society killed or slain in the conflict. The Scottish dead included twelve earls, fifteen lords, many clan chiefs an archbishop and above all King James himself.
A monument to the battle erected in 1910 stands on Piper's Hill and the Remembering Flodden Project has erected a number of information boards across the battlefield.
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