Morse Code KeyGrantown Museum Morse Code is a well-known method of communication and often associated with World War Two. However, even until the 1970s, this was actually the military’s main form of communication. Radio telegraphists would be the first in any...
Powder Horn Glencoe Folk Museum This special horn would have contained blasting powder, used by workers at Ballachulish Quarry. The slate was formed during Precambrian times, approximately 800 million years ago. This metamorphic rock was used to create slate roof...
Mechanised Seed SowerGrantown Museum Portable, hand-operated machines like this one were developed the mid-1800s to help farmers sow their crops. The device was carried under one arm and secured across the body with a shoulder strap. The canvas bag was filled with...
Milk CartonGrantown Museum Auchernack Farm is located near Grantown-on-Spey and has been run by the Smith family since 1936. For many years it operated as a dairy farm and supplied local shops with milk in its own branded packaging. Today there are only around ten...
Bronze-Age BeakerWest Highland Museum This special Bronze Age object dates to the Beaker Period, around 4,000 years ago. This period takes its name from the number of distinctive beakers found. This one was in a gravel knoll above the Nether Lochaber Hotel in Corran,...
