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,...
Bronze Age Halberd – Modern ReproductionWest Highland Museum During the Bronze Age, halberds like this one were used as weapons, as well as for hunting and perhaps even as symbols of status and importance. Today, they are recognised as valuable archaeological...
Aluminium Ingot West Highland Museum In 1929, the Lochaber aluminium smelter opened in Fort William. The British Aluminium Company had developed an area of 303 square miles around Ben Nevis where there is an average rainfall of 406 cm per year. This was ideal for the...
Big Duncan Cameron’s DirkWest Highland Museum This heavy dirk has a special heritage. It belonged to Big Duncan Cameron, known in Gaelic as Donnchadh Mor Camshron. At the Battle of Prestonpans in 1745, Duncan was anxious to go forward before the battle but was held...
Knife from Culloden West Highland Museum This knife may be in a very sorry state, but played an important part of in Highland history. It was found near Drummossie Moor, near Inverness, at the site of the infamous Battle of Culloden, the last engagement of ‘The 1745’....
