Fish FossilNairn Museum This unusual object is actually a fossilised ‘armoured’ fish from the Middle Devonian period, which is often termed ‘the Age of the Fishes’. It was towards the end of the Devonian period that fish crawled out onto land and would...
Needlework SamplerCromarty Courthouse Museum This is a lovely example of a needlework sampler. In their earliest form, samplers were put together as personal reference works for embroiderers: trials of patterns and stitches which had been copied from others, records...
Photograph of Hotel in RosemarkieGroam House Museum This photograph shows a Victorian-built hotel in Rosemarkie on the Black Isle during its heyday in the 1920s. The Hawkhill Hotel, later known as the Marine Hotel, benefitted from Rosemarkie’s popularity as a tourist...
Buddha SculptureNairn Museum This Buddha sculpture is known to have come from Myanmar (previously known as Burma). British rule in Burma lasted from 1824 until it finally gained independence in 1948. During this time, some wealthy gentlemen collectors, including...
Wooden Spear with SnakeskinNairn Museum This Arab spear is known to have belonged to the Baggara or Chadian Arabs. It has a pointed leaf-shaped metal blade and a wooden shaft. Snakeskin is wrapped around it at both ends of the shaft. It is one of several unusual...
