Drumclog Moss

Drumclog Moss is a flat wilderness of broken bog and quagmire in Lanarkshire, Scotland.

The Covenanters defeated Claverhouse's dragoons at the site in the 1679 Battle of Drumclog.

[1] The first part of the name may be *drum, meaning "a back, a ridge",[1] and the second *clog, "a rock, a crag, a steep cliff" (Welsh drum-clog),[1] in place names meaning a standing stone or other stones of perceived significance.

[1] The second part of the name could also be the cognate Gaelic element clach.

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