DURHAM, ENGLAND—The Chronicle Live reports that researcher Pam Graves, a member the Scottish Soldiers Archaeology Project team at the University of Durham, has been investigating what happened to the Scottish soldiers who survived imprisonment by Oliver Cromwell’s forces after the Battle of Dunbar in 1650. (The team has recovered and studied the remains of some of the 1,700 Scottish soldiers who died while imprisoned.) Graves’ research indicates that the survivors went on to do a range of things, including working in the salt pans in England’s South Shields, draining the Fens in eastern England, being sent to Ireland and France for military service, and being sold into indentured servitude in America. Some of those sent to America ended up working at the Saugus ironworks in Lynn, Massachusetts, and at sawmills in Maine. “Tracing their names through history also shows us what these men did once they were released from indenture,” said Graves. For more on archaeology in Scotland, go to “Lost and Found (Again).”
