Angus town puts its past on display

SOME of the significant events in an Angus town’s history, including its involvement in two wars, are being recalled to mark Scottish Archaeology Month.

Montrose Museum has mounted a timeline exhibition charting the development of the area since prehistoric times.

Some of the earliest artefacts on display include Mesolithic arrowheads, dating from around 6000BC, and a Stone Age flint axe.

It also recalls Edward I’s stay at Montrose Castle when John Balliol was stripped of the kingship of Scotland in 1296, sparking the Wars of Independence, and the sword belonging to James Graham, 1st Marquess of Montrose, represents the Civil War period.

The marquess was a key player in the war, first for the parliamentarian army but then switching sides and becoming a royalist general.

A Jacobite cockade also harks back to the town’s Jacobite leanings in the 18th century and its occupation by the Duke of Cumberland’s army after the defeat of Prince Charles Stewart’s army at Culloden.

Visitors will also be able to see how the town has changed down the years. There will be a series of photographs dating back to the 19th and early 20th centuries.

The exhibition, There’s a Time and Place, will run until the end of October.