Time to go back inn

The Scotsman | July 15, 2006| | Copyright

Is the Sheriffmuir Inn haunted? It should be, given its position slap bang on the field of one of the key battles of "the 15", when the Jacobite Earl of Mar with his 10,000 troops was mauled by the Duke of Argyll with a measly 4,000.

Any ghosts that still linger in this glamorously bleak moorland spot on the edge of the Ochils will be more intent on debating last week's full-time score than on scaring the bejesus out of the Inn's well-fed clientele. The battle of Sheriffmuir (13 November, 1715), commemorated a few hundred yards from this ancient drover's inn, was one of the great ...

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