Ammonite FossilSeaboard Centre Ammonite fossils are extremely useful to geologists because the species evolved rapidly. This means each different species had a short and distinct lifespan providing important information about the strata (layer of rock) each one is...
Lovat Scouts Battledress BonnetThe Highlanders’ Museum This item of headwear is known as a battledress bonnet and dates from World War Two. The black and white checkerboard pattern is an iconic symbol of the Lovat Scouts regiment. The Lovat Scouts were...
Pictish Stone – Grave SlabGroam House Museum This Pictish stone gives us important information about people from the period 1000 to 1500 years ago. Many such large stones have been found across the north half of Scotland. The name Picts, meaning painted people,...
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...
Taxidermy StoatGrantown Museum Taxidermy is the practice of preserving and mounting animal skins in lifelike postures and was very fashionable with Victorian collectors. This taxidermy specimen would have been of interest because it shows the stoat in ermine – in...
