Complex sentence: Fighting spread as far as Pitreavie on the far side of Inverkeithing and was said to have been particularly bloody: reputedly the Pinkerton Burn ran red with blood for days and the heaps of the dead resembled stooks in a harvest field.
Split into simpler sentences: Fighting spread as far as Pitreavie on the far side of Inverkeithing. It was said to have been particularly bloody: reputedly the Pinkerton Burn ran red with blood for several days and the heaps of the dead resembled stooks in a harvest field.