Comments by "Iain Mc" (@iainmc9859) on "The Truth About the Battle of Culloden (1746), the Last Pitched Battle in Britain" video.

  1. Muirs are quite disparate places, bushes, trees, ditches, bog, rocks and burns. Its really just uncultivated land. The National Trust for Scotland have control over part of the battlefield site, which is also a Conservation Area. Thankfully the NTfS have managed to resist attempts for planning permission for holiday parks on the site of the battlefield outwith the land they maintain. There's also the problem of controlling public access so that the site isn't damaged by visitor numbers. They'll always be a compromise between, nature, history, safe public access and the local population. Personally I'm not a great fan of Visitor's Centers and consider them a blot on the landscape ( Including the Bannockburn and Callanish ones in that) but I'm probably in the minority on that issue, I guess coach loads of barely informed tourists need toilet stops and gift shops.
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  2. I take your point but can't help feeling that most people's view of a muir is a bleak open landscape, which muirs generally aren't, unless heavily grazed by sheep and cows. Its probably just keeping the sheep off it and the encroachment of more people keeping the deer away that's allowing birch to grow. I used to live just east of Culloden in Nairn, thirty years ago, and the area's changed over that short time, never mind 270 years ago. I doubt there's any 'political' decision making regarding obscuring history, in this case. @andrewheaney6858 
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