at the Battle of Culloden and more recently when he was bitten by a rattlesnake at Fraser's Ridge. On both occasions, he was on the brink of death and seemed to have an out-of-body experience ...
Fir them that dinnae ken much aboot it, Culloden wis the last battle focht on British soil ... ‘Here the chief of Macgilvarys fell’. ‘Clan Fraser’. ‘Clan MacKintosh’.
A sword found at the site of 1746's Battle of Culloden is to be put up for auction ... and the Jacobites' fight to restore the exiled Stuart king James VIII to the British throne.