Pictish Stone with Eagle and SalmonGairloch Museum This Pictish Stone is made of local Torridonian sandstone and was probably carved between AD 500 and 700. It was found around 1870, possibly in a cist burial, and moved to several different places in Gairloch before...
Sample of Lewisian GneissGairloch Museum This rock may look ordinary at first glance, but it is actually a sample of one of the oldest rocks in the world – and certainly the oldest in Scotland. Formed three billion years ago, Lewisian Gneiss forms the basement rock...
Hugh Miller’s Eagle StoneCromarty Courthouse Museum This decorative stone showing an eagle was carved by self-taught geologist, Hugh Miller (1802 – 1856). This author, folklorist, and church reformer was born in Cromarty, where he lived until 1840. Miller’s...
