Battle Pit

Battle Pit
Location	Westfarthing, The Shire
Type	Burial ground
Description	Sand-pit where nearly seventy Ruffians were buried
History
Founded/built	November 3 TA 3019

"The dead ruffians were laden on waggons and hauled off to an old sand-pit nearby and there buried: in the Battle Pit, as it was afterwards called."

—Aftermath of the Battle of Bywater

The Battle Pit was "an old sand-pit" near the town of Bywater in the Shire that was used as the burial place for the Ruffians killed during the Battle of Bywater.

The Battle Pit was located a short distance east of the town.

History

On November 3 in the year 3019 of the late Third Age, 100 Ruffians fought against 300 Hobbits on the Bywater Road. The Ruffians had foolishly walked into a trap within a banked portion of the road, which the Hobbits secured with barricades at either end. In the ensuing fight nearly seventy of the Men died. The victorious Hobbits loaded the bodies of their foes into wagons and hauled them to an old, nearby sand-pit for burial, which thereafter was called the Battle Pit. Nineteen Hobbits also died in the fray but they were buried separately, with honor in a hill-side grave above the Battle Pit. Sometime later, "a great stone was" placed over the hill-side grave and a garden grew around it.

In other versions

In an early draft of the chapter "The Scouring of the Shire", the burial place of the Ruffians was originally "an old gravel-pit" that the Hobbits later named the Battle Pits. In this draft, there were no Hobbit casualties.

Inspiration

In relation to the "great stone" it was noted by Patricia Reynolds that while "the setting of memorial stones . . . is a widespread tradition", the garden that grew around the stone recalls a World War I tradition where "many English villages" would plant a "garden of remembrance" around their war-memorials.

Translations

Foreign Language	Translated name
Afrikaans	Stryd put
Albanian	Gropa e betejës
Amharic	የውጊያ ጉድጓድ
Arabic	معركة حفرة
Armenian	Ճակատամարտ փոս
Assamese	যুদ্ধৰ গাঁত
Azerbaijani	Döyüş çuxur
Belarusian Cyrillic	бітва яма
Bengali	যুদ্ধ পিট
Bulgarian Cyrillic	Бойна яма
Burmese	တိုက်ပွဲတွင်း
Cambodian	រណ្តៅសមរភូមិ
Catalan	Pou de batalla
Chinese	战斗坑
Croatian	Bitka jama
Czech	Bitva jáma
Danish	Kamphaven
Dogri	लड़ाई गड्ढा
Estonian	Lahing auk
Filipino	Hukay ng labanan
Finnish	Sotamonttu
French	Puits de la Bataille
Galician	Batalla pozo
German	Schlachtgrube
Greek	Μάχη λατομείο
Gujarati	યુદ્ધ ખાડો
Hebrew	בור קרב
Hindi	लड़ाई गड्ढे
Hungarian	Csata gödör
Icelandic	Orrusta-gryfja
Indonesian	Pertempuran lubang
Irish Gaelic	Poll cath
Italian	Battaglia fossa
Japanese	バトルピット
Kannada	ಕದನ ಪಿಟ್
Kazakh	Жауынгерлік шұңқыр (Cyrillic) Jawıngerlik şuñqır (Latin)
Konkani	झुजाचो खड्डो
Korean	배틀 핏
Kyrgyz Cyrillic	Согуш чуңкуру
Laotian	ຂຸມຮົບ
Latvian	Cīņa bedre
Lithuanian	Mūšio duobė
Luxembourgish	Schluecht Grouf
Macedonian Cyrillic	Битка јама
Maithili	युद्ध गड्ढा
Malayalam	യുദ്ധക്കുഴി
Maltese	Ġlieda għadma
Marathi	लढाई खड्डा
Mongolian Cyrillic	Дайн нүх
Nepalese	युद्ध खाडल
Norwegian	Slaggrav
Pashto	د جګړې کندې
Persian	گودال نبرد
Polish	Bitewny dół
Portuguese	Poço de batalha
Punjabi	ਬੈਟਲ ਪਿਟ
Romanian	Groapă luptă
Serbian	Битка рупа (Cyrillic) Bitka rupa (Latin)
Shona	Gomba rehondo
Sindhi	جنگ جو کڙو
Sinhalese	සටන් වළ
Slovak	Bojová jama
Slovenian	Bojna jama
Somali	God dagaal
Spanish	Hoyo de batalla
Swahili	Vita Shimo
Swedish	Slåssgrav
Tajik Cyrillic	Чоҳи ҷанг
Tamil	போர் குழி
Tatar	Сугыш чокыры
Telugu	యుద్ధం పిట్
Thai	รบหลุมรบ
Tigrinya	ናይ ውግእ ጉድጓድ
Turkish	Savaş çukur
Turkmen	Söweş çukury
Ukrainian Cyrillic	Бойова яма
Urdu	جنگ کا گڑھا
Uzbek	Жанг чуқури (Cyrillic) Jang chuquri (Latin)
Vietnamese	Hố chiến trận
Welsh	Pwll Brwydr
Yiddish	שלאַכט גרוב