Jacobites will descend on Fort George this weekend .

The Jacobite soldiers will share their stories on Saturday 11 and Sunday 12 August, based on the tales that inspired the Outlander novels.

www.historicenvironment.scot/events

https://www.scottishfield.co.uk/culture/outlander-inspired-trips-to-17th-and-18th-century-scotland/

Going underground: Dark Dundee city vaults tour will offer glimpse into 17th Century life.

MORE INFORMATION HERE: https://www.thecourier.co.uk/fp/news/local/dundee/700007/going-underground-dark-dundee-city-vaults-tour-will-offer-glimpse-into-17th-century-life/

17th-Century Clan Lands Surveyed in Scotland

https://www.archaeology.org/news/6638-180522-scotland-loch-lomond

Discoveries from the deep: sailing aboard the Swan in the 17th century

https://www.archaeology.co.uk/articles/features/discoveries-from-the-deep-sailing-aboard-the-swan-in-the-17th-century.htm

18th Century Jacobite Objects.

Backsword (detail) presented to Prince Charles Edward Stuart by James, 3rd Duke of Perth c. 1740. — Pictures courtesy of National Museums Scotland.

Movement of a pocket watch dug up in a field near Prestonpans, made by I Moncrief of London, late 17th-early 18th century.

Tabard or herald’s coat, Scottish, early 18th century.

Targe possibly used by Macdonald of Keppoch at Culloden.

More Information Here: http://www.themalaymailonline.com/features/article/jacobites-made-famous-in-outlander-focus-of-scottish-exhibition

Jacobite sites.

https://www.jacobitetrail.co.uk/

Remains of 18th Century Walled Garden Found in Scotland.

Remains of an 18th Century garden have been found at Culzean Castle during excavation works to install a new drainage system.

 More here: http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-glasgow-west-39790523

2017 Forum Recruitment Drive for Living History UK.

This poster does rather infer that Living History UK is all about 20th century warfare, but I think you will find that their interests are across the historical board. Well worth checking them out, especially if you are living in the UK.

http://www.livinghistory.co.uk/

Glass Beads Found In Scotland.

http://www.nms.ac.uk/explore/collection-search-results/?item_id=235308;

18th Century Scotland. Link.

http://modern.scot/social-life-of-scotland/

Lighting Lanterns & Street Lighting. A Link.

Wood and Horn Lantern Aberdeenshire, Scotland 18th Century (Museum of Scotland)

https://www.scribd.com/doc/254740196/Lighting-Lanterns-Street-Lamps

Sporran Pattern. PDF.

http://www.nwta.com/patterns/pdfs/291sporr.pdf

18th century sporran (Not the one in PDF).

http://www.pinterest.com/source/collections.glasgowmuseums.com/;

Chasing the Deer - 1995 - Full movie about Jacobite rising 1745

Research: Small Bar-Lead For Making Shot and Round Ball.

This research of mine is as usual ongoing, but this is what I have so far on this subject. It is undeniable that small bar lead was available in England and in the colonies. It was used in shot towers, it was for sale and trade. Small bar lead was undoubtedly carried in small quantities by woodsrunners and Indians, but I believe the major use of the ball mould carried in the shot pouch was for remoulding spent lead retrieved from shot game. 

18^th Century Small Bar-Lead For Making Round Ball.

To write down all the processes of producing bar lead from lead ore would take up a lot of room here, so I will keep it brief. The lead ore is mined from the ground, it is sorted from dead rock, and the rock with Galena in it is then crushed using a flat headed hammer called a “Bucker”. This work was carried out by children 10 years of age, and some elderly adults.

A Bucker was used to crush the pure Galena to uniform pea sized chunks. Photograph © 2006 Carol Haynes. http://www.mylearning.org/lead-mining-in-the-yorkshire-dales/p-414/;

The ore being washed. By David Allan

Crushing the rock and sorting. By David Allan.

After the ore was sorted and crushed it went into a furnace, where the lead was melted out and run out of the furnace into lead ingot moulds or pig moulds. These varied in shape and size depending on the individual mine and the country that mine was in.

Large 18th century lead pig.

From here these lead pigs or ingots were taken by pony to a smelter for further refining. Sometimes the made product was silver and the lead was a secondary product. At the smelter the moulten lead was again poured into moulds of a particular size, and again depending on the smelter there were a variety of shapes and sizes.

Lead Processing at Leadhills Smelting by David Allan

Lead Processing at Leadhills Weighing the Lead Bars By David Allan.

Although I can find no information regarding the production of “small bar-lead”, I believe that it was probably made as part of the process at the smelter. The large ingots and pigs were then sold, some going overseas. These large lead pigs were used as ship’s ballast to save on shipping expenses. NOTE: The terms ingot and pig also referred to bars of lead regardless of size
Dutch East Indiaman Kennemerland wrecked at Stoura Stack December 1664. Carrying 100 lead pigs. http://www.historic-scotland.gov.uk/hmpa-outskerries.pdf

Small bar-lead was used in the 17^th and 18^th  and 19^th century fur trade, it was also used by the military and on occasion issued to the soldiers.

, 30 bars of lead, 30 pounds of powder, 30 awls, 30 glasses, 30 tobacco boxes, 3 papersof beads, 44 pounds of red lead, 30 pair of hawks' bells, 6 drawing knives, 6 caps,
12 hoes: Do by these presents grant, bargain and sell, &c., all right, title and iinterest, http://www.cems.uwe.ac.uk/~rstephen/livingeaston/local_history/Penn/Penn_family_part_1.html

During the 1744 treaty conference, the British commissioners traded with the Iroquois goods they held to be worth 220 pounds sterling and 15 shillings, including 200 shirts, four duffle blankets, forty-seven guns, one pound of vermillion, 1000 flints, four dozen Jews Harps, 202 bars of lead, two quarters shot, and two half-barrels of gun powder.

http://www.ratical.org/many_worlds/6Nations/FFchp3.html

Small Bar Lead--@ 18\3 --

http://www.mohicanpress.com/trade_goods.html

Other equipment mentioned was ladles for transferring the smelted lead from the fore-hearth into the one "greate iron moulde" and the 12 "small mouldes".

https://www.rhydymwynvalleyhistory.co.uk/history/history-lead.htm

Bar lead sizes and Images.

 On average, the ingots measure 27.0-28.1cm long and are 1.9-2.1cm wide maximum.

http://www.shipwreck.net/pdf/OMEPapers19-FinalX.pdf

Lead pigs 18^th century 25cm long.
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1057241403000797

On average, the ingots measure 27.0-28.1cm long and are 1.9-2.1cm wide maximum.

19thc. http://odysseysvirtualmuseum.com/products/Lead-Ingot.html;

Lead Pigs 18th century.

Collector's Illustrated Encyclopedia of the American Revolution. Pigs of lead.;
17^th century pigs of lead from shipwreck.

http://aww.pt/aww/2007_news_archive.asp?Language=EN;

The Archaeology of Lead Mining. 18^th century mining.

http://www.pdmhs.com/PDFs/ScannedBulletinArticles/Bulletin%2010-6%20-%20The%20Comparative%20Archaeology%20of%20Tin%20and%20Lead.pdf

Lead mining in Cymru/Wales.

http://www.aditnow.co.uk/documents/personal-album-128/Mining-for-metals-in-Wales.pdf

Lead sinkers made from bar lead.

http://www.sha.org/CF_webservice/servePDFHTML.cfm?fileName=19-2-05.pdf

PDF: Composite lead & iron round ball.
http://www.battlefieldstrust.com/media/735.pdf

Fort Edward and Roger’s Island sites information.

http://books.google.com.au/books?id=MVA05byHmKoC&pg=PA9&lpg=PA9&dq=french+and+indian+war+lead+pigs+or+ingots&source=bl&ots=-LO71FgY6w&sig=XKMNFiLuTL8uuDMH2ed8_X0QvvI&hl=en&sa=X&ei=A9R5UoKQFYPxiAee6ICoDg&ved=0CG0Q6AEwCTgK#v=onepage&q=french%20and%20indian%20war%20lead%20pigs%20or%20ingots&f=false

Dutch East Indiaman Kennemerland wrecked at Stoura Stack December 1664. Carrying 100 lead pigs.

http://www.historic-scotland.gov.uk/hmpa-outskerries.pdf

Spanish lead pigs were rectangular, and French lead pigs were salmon shaped. English lead pigs had a boat-like structure.
http://books.google.com.au/books?id=RZna-xKapDIC&pg=PA117&lpg=PA117&dq=online+american+museum+collections-lead+pigs+or+ingots&source=bl&ots=9ykUEGLIzj&sig=yLf2aqWbG3HQQiVMMfCt7yUU0zA&hl=en&sa=X&ei=W2J5UseSMpGaiQeyvYGABg&ved=0CEEQ6AEwAw#v=onepage&q=online%20american%20museum%20collections-lead%20pigs%20or%20ingots&am
p;f=false

"pigs of lead to make shot" A Journal Kept byCaptain John Narbrough, &c. John Narbrough.

http://www.rockvillepress.com/tierra/texts/NARBROUGH.HTM

Bar-lead and Galena owned by the author. Image copyright Keith H. Burgess.

Galena or lead ore. Image and copyright: Keith H. Burgess.

Author’s goose shot mould.

Author’s ball mould and copy of an original copper lead ladle.

Scotland - The Clansman Documentary.

Scotland - The Clansman Documentary from Hendry on Vimeo.

The Scottish Dirk. By Request.

A chap who follows this blog emailed me with several questions, one of which was: Q If a Scot was a trapper/hunter/woodsman in the New World, would he still carry a dirk?
My answere to this is that I cannot be sure, because I have no written documentation, but if I were a Scot and I was used to carrying a dirk all the time, I would continue to carry it wherever I went.
Many of you may remember my mentioning a good friend of mine, Dr Rob Gilbert of Stirlingshire Scotland. Sadly Robert died last year, but I remember him telling me that many a local in his community were up in arms at the law that banned the wearing of the dirk. This is much the same as the law here in NSW that bans the carrying of clasp knives in public. I have carried such a tool since I was about 8 years of age, and now at 63 they tell me I can no longer carry one in my pocket! Anyway Tom, here are a couple of images of original dirks to wet your appetite. These are both late 17th century to early 18th century style.
Copies of these are made for the Living Historian and the Historical Reenactor, but they are often left blunt for the reenactors.



http://www.scottishsword.com/jacobitedirk1.html

http://www.museumofleathercraft.org/scottish-dirk/

Just a quick comment: You do not have to be a Scot to carry a dirk, you just have to think of a good reason as to how you came by it.

Charge Bayonets! John Lambtons 68th Foot. A Link.

http://lambtons.wordpress.com/2011/10/18/charge-bayonets/

Scotland-The Clansman. Documentary Video.

Scotland - The Clansman Documentary from Hendry on Vimeo.

History Of Britain-Nations & Empire. Link to a video.

http://timelines.tv/index.php?t=2&e=4

The Escape Of Lord Nithsdale, 1716.

Lord Nithsdale was a Jacobite, and he was sent to the Tower pending his execution in 1716. But his wife visited with her maid, and Lord Nithsdale changed clothes with the maid and escaped.
I often wonder what happened to the maid?!

Painting By Emily Mary Osborn.

More information at: http://www.executedtoday.com/2011/02/24/1716-lord-kenmure-derwentwater-nithsdale/

My thanks to Nelly for the following links to this story:

http://www.yourphotocard.com/Ascanius/documents/The%20Escape%20of%20Lord%20Nithsdale%20from%20the%20Tower%20of%20London.pdf

http://www.burkespeerage.com/articles/scotland/esnews/es1202b1.aspx

Culloden 2.

http://www.queenofscots.co.uk/culloden/index.html

http://www.queenofscots.co.uk/culloden/cull.html