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Outlander s Sam Heughan Asks Fans to Be Respectful at Historical Sites Hopefully, reading our book or other books, people will understand the history of what happened and treat historic sites with the respect they are due, Heughan said.
“From recent research, we know that one in five people visit Scotland having seen the locations on film or TV and a high number of those visitors cite
Outlander as the inspiration behind their trip,” Jenni Steele, Film & Creative Industries Manager at VisitScotland, told
Experts used laser scans and Lidar (light detection and ranging) technology to create highly detailed topographical maps of the Culloden battlefield, which could take them back in time to view the landscape as it was on that fateful day.
“These maps give us the most detailed understanding currently possible of how the landscape looked in 1746,” said Derek Alexander, the National Trust for Scotland’s (NTS) head of archaeology.
“Thanks to 21st-Century technology, we can use these to get a feel for what soldiers on the battlefield would actually have been able to see of their opponents, their positions and their weaponry.
The battlefield viewed from Scottish lines (National Trust for Scotland/PA)
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Conservationists have accurately recreated the Culloden battlefield using electronic mapping techniques to mark the 275th anniversary of the battle.
Experts say the new technology gives “the most detailed understanding” possible of how the landscape looked in 1746, when the final Jacobite Rising “came to a brutal head in one of the most harrowing battles in British history”.
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