The Black Watch Museum has unveiled its replica First World War trench to the public.
The exhibit is the first of its kind in Scotland and will offer an insight into the trench warfare that characterised the conflict that took place on battlefields such as the Somme.
Initially, it will be open to school groups as an evocative teaching tool, bringing to life some of the hardships faced by thousands of Scots soldiers.
Many of those young men lost their lives amidst the mud and squalor of the earth, timber and sandbag defences, cut down by machine gun fire, artillery shells or gas.
Though pupils will be the first to peer from the trench’s firing positions, over time, the team at Balhousie Castle hope to see it opened to the general public for tours and reenactments.
