Commemorative Pocket WatchThe Highlander’s Museum During the early twentieth century, pocket watches were the height of fashion for the upper classes. They were not new – this portable way to tell the time had actually been invented as early as 1510. From...
Clay Spade Glencoe Folk Museum This spade was used for digging clay – possibly to make drainage ditches. Digging the land is hard work, especially when the land is made of compacted, wet clay! The sharp point of the spade would have been useful for piercing into the...
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....
Flaughter Spade Glencoe Folk Museum This flaughter spade was similar to the English breast plough. They were pushed against the belly or thigh to peel back turf from the surface of the land. Turf was useful for making a natural fertiliser – particularly helpful for...
Belemnite Fossils Seaboard Centre Belemnites lived during the Jurassic and Cretaceous periods (the Jurassic Period began about 201 million years ago and the Cretaceous Period ended about 66 million years ago). The fossilised remains of their hard bullet-like tail...
