This commemorative plaque sits on the Struie Hill, as it says to commemorate the epic 123 mile march by the Corps through the Scottish Highlands in September 1898. (London Scottish Regimental Gazette, No.1000, Vol. XCIV, Winter 1989)
It was once attached to a tree, which was planted in 1937 by the Seaforth Highlanders and the London Scottish to commemorate the march. A second plaque says that the tree was destroyed in 1985, so it is now on a rock instead.
The London Scottish (regiment) is a former regiment of the British Territorial Army
In 1793, The Highland Armed Association of London and The Loyal North Britons were raised as part of the country's Volunteer Forces ready to repel Napoleon's threatened invasion of England. These were later disbanded. But as threats to the country rose, after the Crimean war, a group of individual Scots raised The London Scottish Rifle Volunteers. (1895), sponsored by The Highland Society of London and The Caledonian Society of London.
The following famous people have served in the London Scottish Regiment: Basil Rathbone (Actor), Alexander Fleming (Scientist) to name but two.
NB!!! DON’T MISS THE WOLF STONE FIND SITE
As you are heading north from A9, on route to this cache I would like to point out the Site of the Wolf Stone find. (There is no real safe parking area, just a very small gateway into a field, on a bad bend, so we haven’t left a cache) Co-ordinates are N 57°44.238 W 004°16.278 and if you look to the right from here, you will see the wall were the stones were found.
In 1903, 2 sandstone fragments, bearing carved representations of a deer and wolf in Pictish style, were found 'built into an old wall at Stittenham', Ardross in Ross and Cromarty. They are known as the Ardross 'wolf' and 'horse'.
It is one of the earliest, if not the earliest depiction of a wolf in a Scotland. The wolfstone is described as one of the most famous incised stones.
Known to be 6th century Class 1 Pictish carvings, the originals of which are on display in the Natural History Section of the Inverness Museum and Art Gallery.
Close to the site of where the Wolf stone was found, is one of the best preserved eight chambered tombs, where a much disturbed 12 metre (40ft) diameter cairn surrounds the remains of a polygonal chamber, unfortunately this can no longer be accessed either.
The hills along the Alness - Tain road have no less than eight chambered tombs. The valley of the Averon River is the site of several more.