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...
Natural Heather Pot ScrubberGairloch Museum These heather twigs, joined together with a piece of handmade hemp rope, are actually an inventive, natural pot scrubber. They show the use of any available resources in the early 1950s, as the country emerged from the...
‘Spitalfields’ Silk DressGlencoe Folk Museum This beautiful dress takes its name from Spitalfields, London, where it was originally made with brocaded woven silk. It is believed to have belonged to an upper-class Jacobite supporter during the 1740s....
Plaque from Cromarty Hospital Cromarty Courthouse At the end of the nineteenth century, a serious measles epidemic triggered demands for a local hospital in Cromarty. Measles is a highly contagious airborne virus, now prevented by vaccination but responsible for...
Fan Mussel Shell Gairloch Museum This very large fan mussel shell was found in Loch Ewe and is believed to have been around twenty years old. It’s one of the largest examples ever found. Britain’s biggest bivalve shellfish, the fan mussel (slige-ghaotharain) is now...
