Culloden Moor

After landing in Inverness and recovering from a truly horrendous journey....beer and food are marvelous pick-me-ups--our first stop was Culloden Moor. They have a really great new visitor center which gives the history of the battle with some very well-done and moving displays, but the real experience is walking out on the moor. Not to be all melodramatic, but it is haunting. And so beautiful. I won't bore everyone with the history of the battle, but it's heartbreaking. Obligatory thistles. I took a fair number of thistle shots...I won't share all of them, though! Never fear...
The moor, looking from where the Jacobites were standing towards where the english were.
Now, there's a fancy-pants (and very well done) visitor center, but before that happened, the landowner put up his own memorial and clan stones. I found those to be more touching that the new ones, really.
Since the English were killing every tartan-wearing Scot they could find, and since so very many Scots died, they were buried in mass graves. Many clans have their own stones, but not all.This placard shows the battle lines. Jacobites in blue, English in red.

And here we have a slug. The slugs were HUGE and everywhere. I put the phone next next to it to show the scale.