The discovery of Scotland’s richest silver mine near Alva, Clackmannanshire which coincided with the 1715 Jacobite rebellion led to an extraordinary sequence of events told here for the first time.

It is a true story of fortunes made and lost, and the cast of characters includes Jacobites and Hanoverians, lords and ladies, a disloyal servant, and Sir Isaac Newton.

Co-publication with the Clackmannan Field Studies Society