Ice-skating BootsBrora Heritage Centre These red leather ice-skating boots would have been worn by people skating on natural ice formed on lochs and curling ponds. It is thought that ice skating first appeared in Britain in the seventeenth century. In recent years,...
Brora BrickBrora Heritage Centre This simple-looking brick is actually one of tens of thousands produced by the Brora Brickworks and gives us an insight into this very significant, Regency-era industry. In 1818, the Sutherland Estate established the brickworks next to...
Coal Brora Heritage Centre At first glance, a piece of coal may seem like an odd object for a museum, but coal has been central to the story and history of Brora for many centuries! Coal was first discovered in Brora in 1529. It was to play a key role in Brora’s...
Taxidermy OspreyGrantown Museum Fossil evidence shows that osprey had been in Scotland around twelve thousand years ago, at the start of the Mesolithic period. However, during the nineteenth century, this migratory bird was hunted to the point of extinction in Great...
A Piece of Thatch from Marram GrassNairn Museum This triangular shaped piece of marram grass was a piece of thatch taken from a Fishertown house. It was gifted by Mr John Mackintosh of Cawdor Village Store in 2004. Marram grass was often used to thatch houses in...
