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Bloody Culloden £8.00

The spot where the fiercest fighting of the battle took place is marked by a cairn. It was erected in 1881 by Duncan Forbes, the last resident proprietor of the Culloden estate and a descendant of the Lord President of the Court of Session of '45 fame.

The 20 feet high by 18 feet in diameter cairn, which is built of rough stones mingled with soil, bears the following inscription:

The Culloden Memorial Cairn

The Battle of Culloden
was fought on this moor
16th April, 1746.
The graves of the Gallant
Highlanders
who fought for
Scotland and Prince Charlie
are marked by the names of their clans.

At the same time as he erected the cairn, Mr Forbes had slabs of stone placed on the spots where tradition told the various sections of combatants were interred. The Highland dead appear to have been buried according to their clans - the Mackintoshes, Camerons, Stewarts, etc. - in seperate trenches. The headstone put up on each of them bears simply the name of the clan carved boldly on the slab. And where clansmen were buried indiscriminately, the inscription says so.

The relatively few Hanovarian dead were interred in the only arable land that existed on the moor at the time of the battle. To this day, the place is known as "The Field of the English".

The pictures show the cairn, the Cameron grave, the Stewart grave and a mixed grave - just a couple of the many graves scattered across Culloden.

The Mixed Clans GraveThe Stewart Clan GraveThe Cameron Clan Grave

Bloody Culloden £8.00

The Jacobites And The Hanovarians

The numbered lists below represent the numbers on the map between the two lists. This map shows the layout of the troops on Culloden Moor.

    JACOBITE ARMY - numbering nearly 5,000 men:
  1. Baggot
  2. Kilmarnock
  3. Strathallan
  4. Pitsligo
  5. Elcho
  6. Balmerino
  7. 'Bonnie Prince Charlie'
  8. Fitzjames
  9. Irish Picquets
  10. Scots Royal
  11. Duke of Perth
  12. Glenbucket
  13. Lord Lewis Gordon
  14. Gordon of Avochie
  15. Lord Ogilvie
  16. Glengarry
  17. Keppoch
  18. Clanranald
  19. Chisholm
  20. John Roy Stewart
  21. MacLachlan / MacLean / MacLeod
  22. Farquharson
  23. Clan Chattan
  24. Fraser
  25. Stewarts of Appin / MacLaren
  26. Cameron of Lochiel
  27. Athol

The Map of the Battle Arena

    HANOVERIAN ARMY - numbering over 9,000 men:
  1. Kingston
  2. Cobham
  3. Pulteney
  4. St. Clair
  5. Cholmondeley
  6. Price
  7. Campbell
  8. Munro
  9. Barrell
  10. Wolfe
  11. Argyll Militia
  12. Battereau
  13. 'The Duke of Cumberland'
  14. Howard
  15. Fleming
  16. Ligonier
  17. Bligh
  18. Sempill
  19. Cobham
  20. Kerr
  21. Blakeney
  22. Independant Companies

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