Site Event/Activity record EHG3691 - Excavation - Culloden Battlefield

Location

Location Site of Battle of Culloden
Grid reference Centred NH 74503 44999 (36m by 32m)
Map sheet NH74SW
Operational Area INVERNESS NAIRN BADENOCH AND STRATHSPEY
Civil Parish DAVIOT AND DUNLICHITY
Geographical Area INVERNESS

Technique(s)

Organisation

Glasgow University (GUARD)

Date

Sept 2001

Map

Description

Three trenches were excavated by GUARD in 2001 at the Culloden Battlefield site. The work was carried out as part of the BBC television series 'Two Men in a Trench'. They were concentrated in the area around the Old Leanach Cottage and were excavated in an attempt to find remains of a barn known as the 'Red Barn' which had figured in the afrtermath of the battle. A trench was put across an earthwork adjacent to the cottage. In the event no signs of a building were encountered but a wall, probably part of a later kitchen garden attached to cottage was revealed. A trench on the interior of the earthwork similarly found no traces of floor surfaces or burning. A third trench to the northeast of the cottage exposed only activity related to a C19 smallholding with nothing to suggest anything on the site as early as the battle. <1>

Sources/Archives (1)

  • <1> Text/Publication: Pollard, T. & Oliver, N.. 2002. Two men in a Trench: Battlefield Archaeology - The Key to Unlocking The Past. Paper (Original).

Related Monuments/Buildings (1)

  • Battlefield, Culloden (Battlefield)

Record last edited

Nov 27 2014 2:24PM

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