Flora MacDonald's shoe buckles

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Title

Flora MacDonald's shoe buckles

Subject

Jacobite

Description

A pair of decorative 18th century shoe buckles with paste 'jewels'. Said to have been worn by Flora MacDonald (1722 -1790).
Flora was a heroine of the 1745 Jacobite Rising. After two months on the run, Prince Charles Edward Stuart arrived at the island of South Uist where he met 24 year-old Flora. As both her step-father and her fiancée Allan MacDonald were in the Hanoverian army of King George II, she was an unlikely ally. However, she agreed to help the Prince escape from his pursuers by smuggling him away from the island by boat.

Source

1745_rising,objects,jacobite

Date

18th century

Contributor

vanessa

Type

Physical Object

Identifier

7

Date Modified

12/03/2021

Extent

L 51 mm x W 38mm

Medium

West Highland Museum

Spatial Coverage

find,57.5135457,-6.3552075;

Europeana

Europeana Data Provider

West Highlands Museum

Europeana Type

TEXT

Physical Object Item Type Metadata

Prim Media

19

Material

steel, paste

Object Number

L725

Citation

“Flora MacDonald's shoe buckles,” West Highalnds Museum, accessed January 23, 2025, https://whm100.org/omeka/items/show/18.

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