January 31st Photograph Ruined Cottage Scotland

January 31st photograph of a ruined cottage on a snow covered hillside, north of Pitlochry, Perthshire, Scotland.


January 31st photograph of a ruined cottage, north of Pitlochry, Perthshire, Scotland.


January 31st photograph of a ruined cottage, north of Pitlochry, Perthshire, Scotland.


January 31st photograph of a ruined cottage, north of Pitlochry, Perthshire, Scotland.

All photographs are copyright of Sandy Stevenson, Tour Scotland, and may not be used without permission.

The Highland Clearances. In the terrible aftermath of the moorland battle of Culloden, the Highlanders suffered at the hands of their own clan chiefs. Following his magnificent reconstruction of Culloden, John Prebble recounts how the Highlanders were deserted and then betrayed into famine and poverty. While their chiefs grew rich on meat and wool, the people died of cholera and starvation or, evicted from the glens to make way for sheep, were forced to emigrate to foreign lands. Prebble tells a terrible story excellently. There is little need to search further to explain so much of the sadness and emptiness of the northern Highlands today. The Highland Clearances.