Culloden Battlefield
Haydn Blackey / CC BY-SA 2.0
Culloden marks the end of the 1745 Jacobite rising, but the ground also carries the story of what followed and how the battle came to be remembered.
Jacobite and government forces met on Culloden Moor on 16 April 1746. The defeat ended the rising and was followed by measures intended to prevent another. Culloden also became one of the best-known events in Scottish history, often remembered more simply than it was experienced. The Jacobite army was more varied than the familiar image of Highland clans alone, while today’s battlefield contains both traces of 1746 and later acts of remembrance.
Culloden’s openness is part of what gives the battlefield its force. The moor, surviving walls and marked positions create a sense of distance and scale, while the memorials introduce a later layer of remembrance that belongs to a different moment.
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