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There can be few genres in the realm of excavated objects which evoke the imagination and emotion more than those found on the former sites of battle. And rightly so, for they epitomise the tragedy and senselessness of human conflict. Here in Scotland, the very mention of that dreich day of 16 April 1746 on Drumossie Moor at Culloden is enough to kindle deep and dark feelings. For it was then and there that Jacobite hopes for restoring the Stuart monarchy under Prince Charles Edward Stuart were crushed with grim finality by government forces led by the duke of Cumberland. Afterwards, a fire of retribution and terror was ignited which would brutally burn out a way of life in the highlands forever. Much of the battle site at Culloden is now under the care of the National Trust for Scotland (NTS), but had previously been wild moor and then cultivated for farming and forestry use. In 1937, the first two small areas were
The pistol was discovered on Drumossie Moor in the 1950s gifted to the Trust, and in 1944 the memorial stones
