Lifeboat BoardsCromarty Courthouse Museum Known as ‘lifeboat boards’, these wooden records are an incredible resource showing details of lifeboat rescues within the community of Cromarty during the first half of the twentieth century. Cromarty’s history is closely...
Ammonite FossilSeaboard Centre Ammonite fossils are extremely useful to geologists because the species evolved rapidly. This means each different species had a short and distinct lifespan providing important information about the strata (layer of rock) each one is...
Knife from FishertownNairn Museum This Shellbert knife was used for shelling mussels and similar shellfish for bait. The Fishwives of Fishertown, Nairn carried out an extremely important role within the community. In the days, when a great deal of fishing was...
Fisherwoman’s CreelNairn Museum Small woven fish creels, like this one with a plaited rope handle, were used by the fishwives to carry fish for selling either door-to-door or at the market stances. The Nairn Fishwives would often walk for miles to Inverness and...
Salmon Box BrandCromarty Courthouse Museum Salmon has been fished from the firths for centuries. Fish were caught by long nets from the shore then brought in by winch. In Cromarty, the fish were boxed in ice and branded at the harbour so that the contents could be...
