Dunbar

Site of the battle of Dunbar in 1650. Taken as part of my HND2 Graded Unit, one of a series of pictures of Scottish battlefield sites, looking very ordinary and not at all as if events of major importance took place there. After the battle, a notable victory for Cromwell, there was an infamous 'death march' of Scottish prisoners south to Durham. Thousands died either on the way, or in captivity in Durham cathedral. And the survivors were sent to fight abroad or to work as convict labourers on English colonies in the New World and the Caribbean.

As I discovered there was a bit of  gap between me signing up for Blip in December 2009 and my first post in April 2010, I liked the idea of adding a few more images to mean I would have exactly 100 images between starting Blip, and starting it 'properly' - one a day, every day - in November 2010.