Doon, a long hill of considerable height (582 feet), the outmost spur of the Lammermuirs, in Spott parish, Haddingtonshire, 2¼ miles S by E of Dunbar. On its top and slope lay David Leslie's Scotch army, 23,000 strong, the two first days of September 1650, the third being that of the Battle of Dunbar.
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