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Interesting news · 18 September 2025
Cannonball and beakers bought for battlefield centre
from bbc.co.uk
Photograph · bbc.co.uk
A cannonball and two silver beakers linked to the Jacobite rising have been secured for the Culloden Battlefield Visitor Centre.
Once owned by the Ogilvy family, supporters of Bonnie Prince Charlie, the pieces were bought at auction by the National Trust for Scotland using a private donation.
The cannonball, engraved with “Ogilvy Culloden 16th April 1746,” fetched £18,900, while the French-made beakers, featuring the Ogilvy coat of arms, sold for £17,640. After display in Montrose, the artefacts will move to Culloden in 2026.
The domed brick drum on the north bank of the Clyde, opposite the Radisson RED at the SEC campus, is to open again in May 2027 as The Rotunda and Roundhouse.
