Digging Up the Culloden Battlefield ⚔️

Digging up the Culloden Battlefield - to learn more about Scotland and Scottish history, join my Ultimate Guide to Scotland course - find out more here: https://www.bit.ly/outlander-tour

Read the blog from this vlog here, including some of my thoughts on the politics of the Jacobite uprising:   / 58373893  

The National Trust for Scotland are the stewards and guardians of the Culloden Battlefield - a famous and important site that earmarked a pivotal point in Scottish history. They only control around one third of the entire battlefield site, so archeological surveys, trench digs and metal detecting is one way they are trying to gain a better understanding of the surrounding site that they don't currently control, in partnership with land owners.

They have a plan to search more areas, but in this dig they looked at the British government's back line, where Wolfe's regiment would have lined up, to see if any clues from the battlefield would be thrown up. I think it's fair to say they were pleased with the results.

Watch my other Culloden Battlefield videos here:    • Digging Up the Culloden Battlefield ⚔️  

The Battle of Culloden was the final confrontation of the Jacobite rising of 1745. On 16 April 1746, the Jacobite army of Charles Edward Stuart was decisively defeated by a British government force under Prince William Augustus, Duke of Cumberland, on Drummossie Moor near Inverness in the Scottish Highlands.

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