Culloden cattle to share field with dig team

IT was the last pitched battle on British soil that shaped the future of the country.

- By Mike Merritt

Now nearly 280 years on, archaeologists hope to uncover new insights into the Battle of Culloden.

A team is to investigate an area of the battlefield near Inverness that has not been excavated before.

Excavator

The ground, just north of Culloden’s memorial cairn, was where members of Bonnie Prince Charlie’s Jacobite forces advanced on the front line of an opposing government army.