Film shoot for Visitors Center 28/4/2007
Members of Saor Patrol and the Clanranald International Combat Team were performing at lauder moor recreating the battle at Culloden Moor for the Culloden Visitors Center. The final cut of this film shoot can now be viewed at the Culloden Visitors Center.
The current visitor centre was opened in 1984 and has been extended several times.
More than 200,000 people visit the battlefield a year, with its exhibition and education facilities, aims to enable more visitors to learn about the story behind Culloden.
On April 16 1746 the Duke of Cumberland led a 9,000-strong force against the 5,000-man Scottish army of Prince Charles Edward Stuart - Bonnie Prince Charlie – at Culloden near Inverness.
The English won the battle within an hour and the clampdown that occurred afterwards marked the end of the traditional highland way of life and quashed hopes of returning the Jacobite Stuarts to the British throne. Today the site is also a memorial and the site of clan graves as well as the Well of the Dead, where many clansmen were slaughtered whilst quenching their thirst or washing their wounds.
On the Culloden home page a preview of the film shown at the visitors center can be viewed "can you spot Charlie", for more information, opening times and entry fee's to visit this center please follow the link to
More images from this film shoot can be view at
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