- Long‑lost cannons from Ardvreck Castle, missing for more than 50 years, have been found and returned to Assynt and installed in the Old Kirk archive.
- Historic Assynt says a “generous and anonymous” benefactor and the Big Cannon Project helped rehome them — a heartwarming community success.
- The guns are thought to be Swedish “Finbanker” pieces (a cannonball in the archive fits) and may date to a 1672 siege or even have been salvaged from a shipwreck — a neat bit of local mystery.
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