Atholl Games (Part 2) Highlanders March onto the Games Field




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Atholl Games (Part 2) Highlanders March onto the Games Field

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Like the Atholl Parade, the Games are an annual event, it follows the Parade, on the Sunday of the last full weekend in May. The Atholl Highlanders march from the Castle to the Games Field, bringing with them their Field Gun. The Duke of Atholl calls for the contestants to come forward by hitting a Targe with a Broadsword, to the North, the South, the East and the West, as he beats to the West the Field Gun is fired and the Games commence.

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History, Atholl Highlanders, Travel, Games, Field Gun, Cannon, Blair Atholl, Perthshire, Scotland,

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Like the Atholl Parade, the Games are an annual event, it follows the Parade, on the Sunday of the last full weekend in May. The Atholl Highlanders march from the Castle to the Games Field, bringing with them their Field Gun. The Duke of Atholl calls for the contestants to come forward by hitting a Targe with a Broadsword, to the North, the South, the East and the West, as he beats to the West the Field Gun is fired and the Games commence.
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