On the Battlefield of Culloden, you may discover what seems to be to be an unassuming little farm cottage.
Nonetheless, what it's possible you'll not realise, is that Previous Leanach cottage really survived the bloody battle itself and even went on to assist encourage Outlander writer Diana Gabaldon when it got here to creating her personal Highland hero.
The cottage stands sentinel on the wild moor the place simply over 276 years in the past, the Jacobite dream of restoring the Stuarts to the throne ended because the Jacobite military was decisively routed by a British authorities power.
Extremely, it's thought that it even served as a area constructing for the wounded on the battlefield that day.
However Outlander followers could also be shocked to find that it may, the truth is, be the rationale that Sam Heughan's character within the books and hit present was finally named as a Fraser.
Many consider that this iconic constructing (or a minimum of one in all its now misplaced outbuildings) was the one talked about by Eric Linklater in his e book The Prince within the Heather.
Telling the story of how Charles Edward Stuart, the Younger Pretender, fled the nation after the disastrous defeat at Culloden, it references how round 20 wounded Jacobites got here to take refuge in a farmhouse after the battle.
Diana Gabaldon informed the Nationwide Geographic in 2014, that whereas studying the e book as a part of her analysis for Outlander, she was impressed by a specific passage.
The entry states that after two days, the wounded Jacobites have been taken out and shot, apart from one man, "a Fraser of the Grasp of Lovet's regiment", who survived the slaughter.
She revealed that it made her realise that if she anticipated Jamie to outlive Culloden then his "final title higher be Fraser" - (she'd already been impressed to name him Jamie after a Dr Who character ).
The stoic little cottage with its stone partitions, small home windows and thatched roof, was inhabited till 1912.
It was donated to the Nationwide Belief of Scotland in 1944 by Hector Forbes, the native landowner.
The NTS then used it as their unique customer centre for the battlefield, even restoring the roof to its former glory to make it much more traditionally correct.
In keeping with the conservation charity, the thatching was produced from heather sourced from the battlefield and constructed by native tradesmen.
It was finally closed within the early 2000s when the brand new fashionable customer centre was opened, it's now a short lived exhibition area for guests to find extra about Culloden’s heritage.
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