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Amazing discoveries, 250 years after Culloden

More than 250 years later, the site of the last pitched conflict on British soil and where thousands died in an hour of fighting, continues to shed more secrets for experts to examine. Some 600 musket and artillery balls, the lid of a canister of shot, pieces of firearms – even a Celtic cross – have recently been uncovered by a team directed by Dr Tony Pollard, an internationally recognised expert in battlefield archaeology.
Read entire article at scotsman.com