Glencoe’s Own Ballachulish Goddess

Glencoe’s Own Ballachulish Goddess

Glencoe’s Own Ballachulish GoddessGlencoe Folk Museum In the winter of 1880, lying deep under peat, the mysterious Ballachulish figure was discovered. Hewn from a single piece of alder wood, with pebbles for her eyes, the original carving is almost life-sized, at a...
Chealamy Beaker

Chealamy Beaker

Chealamy BeakerStrathnaver Museum This decorated beaker, dating from the period 2900 BCE to 1600 BCE, is a fine example of a late Neolithic or early Bronze Age ceramic pot.    It was excavated in 1983 from a burial cist, a small stone-built coffin-like structure at...
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