In Derick Sutfin’s cider orchard, three hundred Royal Highlanders faced an awkward position as more than seven hundred Continental infantry approached their right flank and a Continental cannon fired into the treetops above them. Judging the Scots too valuable to lose in a needless firefight, their commander chose not to stand and fight there and instead led them south along the fence in search of a better position from which to assail the Continentals. As the Continentals advanced, an orchard fence blocked their way, so Colonel Cilley sent a platoon to skirmish with the Highlanders and delay them while the rest of the battalion removed the fence. Joseph Martin later recalled that the pursuit lacked order and that as he passed through the orchard he saw enemy soldiers killed by the American field piece. The Scots withdrew through the fields, stopping twice to fire on the pursuing Continentals, then forded the brook and rejoined Clinton’s army. Archaeological excavations begun in 1990 later confirmed the Highlanders’ position there, uncovering evidence of rifle and musket fire as well as lead canister and two-ounce grape shot from Captain Proctor’s four-pounder field piece.