The Fraser Stone at Culloden is a modest, weathered marker that stands among the “graves of the clans” on the battlefield, commemorating the many men of Clan Fraser who died fighting for the Jacobite cause on 16 April 1746. Set in the heather near the great memorial cairn, it does not mark a single grave, but rather a mass burial area where fallen Frasers were interred along with other Jacobite dead. Today it has become one of the most visited and photographed stones on the moor, partly because of the global popularity of the Outlander novels and television series, and paths have even had to be rerouted and returfed to protect the ground from erosion caused by visitors making a kind of modern pilgrimage to the site. Despite this contemporary attention, the stone remains a sombre reminder of the brutal end of the 1745 rising and of the deep impact Culloden had on Highland communities, especially the Frasers of Lovat whose losses it quietly honours.
The Fraser Stone at Culloden is a modest, weathered marker that stands among the “graves of the clans” on the battlefield, commemorating the many men of Clan Fraser who died fighting for the Jacobite cause on 16 April 1746. Set in the heather near the great memorial cairn, it does not mark a single grave, but rather a mass burial area where fallen Frasers were interred along with other Jacobite dead. Today it has become one of the most visited and photographed stones on the moor, partly because of the global popularity of the Outlander novels and television series, and paths have even had to be rerouted and returfed to protect the ground from erosion caused by visitors making a kind of modern pilgrimage to the site. Despite this contemporary attention, the stone remains a sombre reminder of the brutal end of the 1745 rising and of the deep impact Culloden had on Highland communities, especially the Frasers of Lovat whose losses it quietly honours.