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  • Projectiles Recovered at Scotland's Culloden Battlefield

    11/04/2025 6:50:56 PM PST · by SunkenCiv · 14 replies
    Archaeology Magazine ^ | October 31, 2025 | editors / unattributed
    BBC News reports that more than 100 projectiles were recovered during an investigation of an unstudied area of Scotland's Culloden Battlefield. Fought on April 16, 1746, the Battle of Culloden marked Britain's final defeat of the Jacobite army led by Charles Edward Stuart, who was also known as Bonnie Prince Charlie. Stuart had attempted to place his father, who was the son of the Roman Catholic James II, on the British throne. Yet James II had been deposed in 1688 and his line excluded from English succession under the Act of Settlement of 1701. At the time of the battle,...