Stones

Had a good walk right round the estate surrounding the battlefield at Culloden, visiting sites off the tourist trail.
Main picture is the Cumberland Stone, where the Duke of Cumberland is reputed to have stood to direct his troops  in 1746.
The extra is the Prisoners Stone and the story about this stone is verified as one of the prisoners, Alexander Fraser survived to tell the tale. Seventeen injured Jacobites were imprisoned near Drumossie. The day after the battle they were told they were to  receive treatment and loaded into carts. They were brought to this stone, lined up and shot. To ensure the job was done, the soldiers then clubbed them with their muskets. Miraculously, Alexander Fraser did not to succumb to his initial injury, a shot in the knee, being shot at the Stone and being battered by the musket, although he did lose  an eye.