THE Duke of Wellington has been given a Tartan Army makeover by pranksters. 

Videos posted to the TikTok account "coneheids" shows the group spraypainting a traffic cone to pop on the Duke's head.

Best known in his time for his decisive victory against Napoleon at the Battle of Waterloo in 1815, ending the Napoleonic Wars, the Duke is now most commonly known as the statue which always has a cone on top of its head. 

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Sittig proudly on horseback outside the Glasgow Museum of Modern Art, the Ireland-born Duke has now, unwillingly, declared his support for the Scotland team.

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The "coneheids" team struck yesterday after meticulously designing a blue and white Saltire cone, with the Scottish men's team's emblem in the middle of the cross. 

The statue has stood in tribute to the former Prime Minister since 1844 and was in 2011 named by the Lonely Planet travel guide website as one of the "most bizarre monuments on Earth" due to its cone-wearing tradition.