In the RIGHT HANDS
The sword is surprisingly light – 936g to be precise – with a wafer-thin blade and a delicate and intricate silver basket hilt.
“There is a myth that swords were crude, heavy things but it’s not true at all,” explains master sword-maker Paul Macdonald.
It’s extraordinary to think this beautiful, lightweight creation – which can be balanced on the tip of a finger – is an exact replica of a weapon relied on to guard a man’s life in one of the fiercest and most desperate battles ever fought on Scottish soil.
The sword is Paul’s loving recreation, down to the last gram and millimetre, of the weapon carried by Donald Cameron of Lochiel when he led his troops at the Battle of Culloden in 1746.
Nicknamed ‘Gentle’ Lochiel
