November
13
/ 2020
On the 16th April 1746, the Battle of Culloden was Charles Edward Stuart's final stand in his Jacobite uprising of 1745. Pitted against British government forces led by William Augustus, Duke of Cumberland, son of king George II of England, the carnage that unfolded that day on Drummossie Moor to the east of Inverness in the Scottish Highlands was the last pitched battle fought in Britain. 1,500 Jacobites lost their lives that day for want of supplies. Now, thanks to metal detectorists in Scotland, a Jacobite stash of musket balls, buttons and coins have been found near a ruined Lochaber croft house which were intended for the fallen flower of Scotland. This historically significant haul of arms and coins is
