Today is the 278th anniversary of the battle of Culloden in 1746.
The battlefield near Inverness quite often makes the news, and often due to perceived threats to the integrity of the site as not all of it is owned and managed as a heritage asset. Fortunately there are resolute voices to speak out for its protection.
Small finds from the site also occur and The National recently reported on one, which might even be assignable to a known individual. Their article can be seen at Archaeologists announce 'intriguing' finds at site of Battle of Culloden
Although as the article says it is ultimately unknowable if the shoe buckle really did belong to Cameron of Lochiel it is an intriguing idea. The idea that it might brings a more individual note to something as mundane as a broken buckle and a link to a family whose strong loyalty to the Stuart cause was a century old at Culloden, and whose current head was recently ennobled as a Life Peer and government minister in the Lords - his Jacobite peerage not withstanding.
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