Clairdon Hill, Thurso, Caithness

The last recorded battle between two Viking armies in Britain. (A tale from the Orkneyinga saga)

In the year of 1138 the last battle between two Viking armies took place a few miles to the east of Thurso in Caithness, on a windswept hill overlooking the Pentland firth. The Orkney Islands can be seen from the hill on the far horizon, and it was from those islands that one of the combatant armies came.