Trumpet Foghorn from a LighthouseGairloch Museum Rubh Reidh lighthouse stands at the entrance of Loch Ewe in Wester Ross. It was finally finished in 1912, after decades of requests for a lighthouse at this point. This large, cast-iron object is the foghorn trumpet....
Fan Mussel Shell Gairloch Museum This very large fan mussel shell was found in Loch Ewe and is believed to have been around twenty years old. It’s one of the largest examples ever found. Britain’s biggest bivalve shellfish, the fan mussel (slige-ghaotharain) is now...
Flaughter Spade Glencoe Folk Museum This flaughter spade was similar to the English breast plough. They were pushed against the belly or thigh to peel back turf from the surface of the land. Turf was useful for making a natural fertiliser – particularly helpful for...
Crios-iarna or Niddy-noddyStrathnaver Museum This object was used for winding wool, ready for knitting. ‘Iarnas’, or hanks of wool, were formed by winding wool as it came off a spinning wheel in a figure of eight pattern around the crosspieces of wood at either...
Original copy of Down to the Sea Seaboard Centre Down to the Sea documents life in the Seaboard villages and was made during a project led by local school teacher Jessie MacDonald from Hilton. Whilst teaching at Hilton of Cadboll Junior Secondary School in 1951-52,...
