Otter BoardUllapool Museum An otter board is an ingenious device used for fishing. By using the current of the water, the otter board would be able to move across the river, pulling the fishing line behind it, from which would be trailing a series of ‘snells’ – short...
Mesolithic HarpoonWest Highland Museum This object is made from bone and is over five thousand years old. Found by a school girl washed up on the beach near Arisaig, this harpoon would likely have been used by hunter-fisher-foragers walking the shores of Arisaig...
Flare GunGairloch Museum Content warning. Some visitors may find this object upsetting. Though far from mainland Europe, the landscapes and waters of the Highlands were to feature in World War Two in a number of surprising and sometimes tragic ways. Between 1941...
Lightouse SundialGairloch Museum This brass sundial would have sat on a pedestal within the perimeter wall on the south side of Rubh Reidh lighthouse. It is regulation issue and is engraved with the name of the lighthouse, its coordinates, and the makers Adie and Son...
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....
