“The Scottish Gorget”

Posted on June 6, 2015 by Dennis Neely: Traditional Woodsman

“Snapshot Saturday”

A brass gorget with a bullet hole beside the Scottish thistle.

The eerie void of a death messenger’s visitation, to the right of the Scottish thistle on the tarnished brass gorget, begged an explanation… Swamp Hollow, mid-1770s in the Old Northwest Territory.

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