Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Physical Object: Flora MacDonald's prayer book Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context 26 Physical Object An inanimate, three-dimensional object or substance. Note that digital representations of, or surrogates for, these objects should use Moving Image, Still Image, Text or one of the other types. Object Number 912 Prim Media 150 Material steel, wood Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context 50 Type The nature or genre of the resource Physical Object Title A name given to the resource The Appin gun Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource eulac3d Medium The material or physical carrier of the resource. West Highland Museum Date Modified Date on which the resource was changed. 16/12/2020 Description An account of the resource This gun by tradition is the Appin murder weapon. The Appin murder took place on 14 May 1752 in the aftermath of the 1745 Jacobite Rising. It is an infamous and unsolved murder, and the story became the inspiration for Robert Louis Stevenson's novel Kidnapped. Colin Roy Campbell of Glenure, Argyllshire, also known as The Red Fox was murdered. He was the factor of several estates which had been forfeited from pro-Jacobite clans and had the challenging task of collecting taxes from the defeated clans. James Stewart, also known as James of the Glen, helped Campbell collect rents. On the day of the murder Campbell was collecting taxes. When he was passing the road at Lettermore Wood he was shot with a musket ball and died on the spot. Within two days, James Stewart had been arrested and taken to Inveraray to face trial. No real evidence was presented to prove he had been involved in the murder, and the main witness could only state that he had seen a man with a gun some distance away but was unable to identify who the man was. The presiding judge was the chief of clan Campbell, the Duke of Argyll. The jury of 15 contained 11 Campbells. James Stewart was found guilty of the murder, and sentenced to death. Who actually committed the murder remains a mystery, although Stewart's half-brother, Allan Breck Stewart, was suspected. This gun was given to the museum as the "Gun of Appin”. Legend has it that after the murder it was hidden in a tree then taken to a croft house. Eventually it ended up at Dalness House, Glen Etive. In November 1937 the Earl of Antrim gifted the gun to the West Highland Museum. Extent The size or duration of the resource. L 1730 mm x W 450 mm (hilt) Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 18th century Subject The topic of the resource Highlands Spatial Coverage Spatial characteristics of the resource. find,56.5616731,-5.358878; Europeana Specific elements of the Europeana Semantic Elements. Europeana Type The Europeana material type of the resource. TEXT Europeana Data Provider The name or identifier of the organisation that contributes data to Europeana. West Highlands Museum