Jacobite projectiles at found at Culloden

"We've only had time to make a rapid assessment of our results, but musket balls fired by Jacobite and government troops, including pistol balls fired by government dragoons, likely relate to one of the last actions in the battle. This fight took place between the initial battle lines, at a location where boggy ground slowed the Highland charge, and this, in combination with heavy fire from Cumberland's line, helped to seal the fate of the Jacobite cause."

"Archaeologists in Scotland have discovered more than 100 projectiles from the Battle of Culloden in a part of the battlefield where no artifacts have ever been found before. The projectiles include lead musket balls, buck shot and cannon shot, including a three-pound ball believed to have been fired from a Jacobite cannon. The Battle of Culloden was the final clash of the Jacobite uprising of 1745."

Archaeologists uncovered over 100 projectiles at a previously artifact-free area of the Culloden battlefield, including lead musket balls, buckshot, cannon shot and a three-pound ball likely from a Jacobite cannon. The burial ground was part of the final 1746 clash that ended the 1745 Jacobite uprising and forced Bonnie Prince Charlie into exile. A National Trust for Scotland and University of Glasgow team worked with volunteers using metal-detection scanning, trial trenches and test pits. Earlier searches likely failed because of 19th-century forestation and later tree clearance. The finds illuminate late-stage fighting where boggy ground and concentrated government fire halted the Highland charge.

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