Poltalloch ClarsachWest Highland Museum This beautifully decorated clarsach, or Scottish harp, is in the style of the Queen Mary harp, so named because the original design dates from the reign of Mary Queen of Scots. The clarsach is the oldest national instrument of...
Jacobite Printing Plate and PrintWest Highland Museum This fascinating object gives us an insight into a history that never happened. When Prince Charles Edward Stuart – better known as Bonnie Prince Charlie – arrived in the Outer Hebrides in the summer of 1745, he...
Replica TargeGlencoe Folk Museum This beautiful replica object gives us a glimpse of Highland battles from the late sixteenth century until the mid-eighteenth century. In fact, Highland targes were the last type of shields to be used in battle in Europe. The spike on...
‘Waulking the Cloth’ by Jemima BlackburnWest Highland Museum This painting depicts women ‘waulking’ cloth on the shores of Loch Nan Uamh. They are seated in a circle wielding short mallets and singing, whilst members of the gentry look on. Waulking refers to pulling...
Henry III Long Cross PennyCromarty Courthouse Museum This coin is one of many silver coins that have been found by metal detectorists in the fields above Cromarty in the last few years. They have been found in the fields where the medieval annual fair was held along...
