HandcuffsCromarty Courthouse Museum This pair of Hiatt handcuffs were used for prisoners in Cromarty’s Courthouse and jail during the Victorian period. The design of handcuffs has changed little since this pair first went into production in 1780. The a D-shaped wrist...
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...
Standard MeasuresCromarty Courthouse Museum These impressive measuring vessels are the legal standard measures used by the County of Cromarty to ensure that shop keepers, farmers, and other businessmen were maintaining standards and trading legally. Most of us are...
Police Whistle Highland Museum of Childhood This police whistle is an early example of the standard whistle issued to policemen throughout Britain during the early 1900s. This nickel-plated, brass whistle would originally have had a 43cm chain attached so that the...
