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Celebrating and looking after historic battlefields.

About Historic Battlefields

View of Glen Shiel @ NTS

The importance of protecting Scotland's battlefields.

About battlefields Battlefield landscape

What is the inventory?

Stone barricades built by the Jacobites on the slopes of Spanish Hill at Glen Shiel

Details of the Inventory & what it contains.

What is the Inventory How information is presented Defining the boundary

Selecting battlefields

Visitors on Culloden battlefield

How we select battlefields for the Inventory.

Selecting battlefields

Conserving battlefields

Aerial view of Bannockburn @ NTS

Managing change now and for the future.

Conserving battlefields

Caring for battlefields

Rainbow over the battleground at Philiphaugh

We can all help look after our battlefields.

Caring for battlefields

Battlefields Inventory

From a painting of the battle of Culloden 1746 @ NLS

Protecting Scotland's nationally important monuments.

Inventory of Battlefields

Useful Information

The Killiecrankie Pass @ NTS

Other useful information on battlefields.

Glossary of Terms Battle campaigns Key figures

Battlefield FAQs

View of Glen Shiel @ NTS

Questions and answers.

Battlefield FAQs

Interest Groups

Stone barricades built by the Jacobites on the slopes of Spanish Hill at Glen Shiel

Groups with an active interest in battlefields.

Interest Groups
 
 

Search the Inventory

An introductory guide to the Inventory of Historic Battlefields in Scotland 2011

The Inventory of Historic Battlefields in Scotland [pdf, 3.9mb]
An Cunntas de dh’Àraichean Eachdraidheil ann an Alba [pdf, 2.3 mb]

What is the Inventory Search Battlefields Inventory

Battlefield Consultation

View the battlefield consultation

View the Battlefield consultation documents here

Contact Us

Historic Scotland
Longmore House
Salisbury Place
Edinburgh
EH9 1SH
Tel: +44 (0) 131 668 8766

Related Links

Managing change in the historic environment guidance notes Search Battlefields Inventory