An “evocative” perspective on the Jacobite uprising is being offered with a twilight tour of Culloden Battlefield.
The National Trust for Scotland is to offer a guided tour around the historic site near Inverness later this month.
The walk will be led by members of the Culloden Battlefield learning team and will involve an hour long tour of the moor.
The team has promised stories “stranger than fiction” of the men and women who were involved in the 1746 Jacobite uprising which came to an end at the Battle of Culloden.
Over the course of the evening National Trust staff will tell stories of the people and the way of life at the time of Culloden.
They will also invite guests to stand in their footsteps and imagine what it would have been like for the people of the Highlands at the time.
Culloden Battlefield learning officer, Jon Wartnaby, said: “This evocative tour will give you a sense of what it was like to live through the Jacobite rising – the stories are real and often stranger than fiction.”
The gloaming tour will be held on Saturday, June 18 and will set off at 8.30pm from the visitor centre car park to catch the long midsummer’s evening.
Tickets cost £5 for adults and £3 for children and concessions and are available from the National Trust for Scotland website.
Culloden remains the last pitched battle to be fought on British soil and the repercussions changed the course of world history when the Jacobites, led by Bonnie Prince Charlie, were defeated by the Duke of Cumberland’s Hanoverian forces.
The battle, which lasted just one hour, was fought on April 16, 1746.
Between 1,500 and 2,000 Jacobites were killed or wounded in that time, while government losses were lighter with about 50 dead and 259 wounded.
The Jacobite defeat sparked a controversial aftermath with severe restrictions placed on the clan system, including the banning of wearing tartan and kilts except as official army uniform.
It also caused a strengthening of military garrisons in the Highlands, including the creation of the modern, fortified Fort George a few miles from Culloden Battlefield.
