IronNairn Museum This is a Victorian example of a household iron. Hollow on the inside, this ‘box iron’ was heated by a piece of hot iron, known as a slug, and then placed inside the space at the back. Box irons came with two slugs, so that one could be...
Leather Football Brora Heritage Centre This is an old-fashioned leather football. It has an inflatable inner and leather outer casing. Inners were traditionally made from pigs’ bladders, before the use of rubber today. We are not sure what type of inner this has....
Dr Grant’s Teapot Glencoe Folk Museum This teapot belonged to a much-loved Highland GP, Dr Lachlan Grant, who served the community of Ballachulish for 45 years until his death in 1945. The teapot is special because of its design which features a stirrer attached to...
Tawse Cromarty Courthouse Museum Content Warning : This page contains reference to violence, death, racism - OK to open? click the tick... The tawse is a leather strip with a split end that was used as a punishment mainly in Scottish Schools. Its proper name of the...
Floor Tile Brora Heritage Centre This red clay tile from a house is a very ordinary-looking object that gives us wonderful clues about the character who lived in it. It was uncovered during an archaeological excavation in 2022 and was probably from the summer...
