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Culloden Moor. Field of Weeping.
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4/15/2014
Battle of Culloden Moor, April 16th, 1746
Not only did this defeat mark the end for the Catholics and the Highland, Celtic culture, it was the beginning of massacres, war-crimes and the Highland Clearances.The horrible ramifications come down to the present day. I took the picture below myself (the field is now recognised as an official war grave) on a visit to Nairn in March.
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Amazing, isn't it, so innocuous looking ... the "killing fields" are everywhere ...
ReplyDeleteIt's a haunted and melancholy place, Teresa. I felt quite unnerved when visiting last month. Most of the highlanders were buried in mass graves where they fell. There has been much controversy over the memorials. The psychological wounds of Culloden are still raw in Scotland.
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