ARCHAEOLOGY
Please click on the artefact's short descriptor title to reveal a larger image and, where available, more information.
Large axehead dating from about 4000-2500BC.
Clay beaker found by contractor William Ganson near Achavanich along with the remains of a bronze age coffin, complete with skeleton and other grave goods. The coffin was a cist dating from around 1800BC. The beaker appears to have been made to provide food and drink for the journey into the afterlife.
The excavation of Keiss Road broch by Nicolson and Tress Barry in 1893.
Cross-shaped Viking grave marker found near Old St Peter's in 1896. The runic inscription translates as "...made this overlay in memory of his father Ingulf".
This stone has been cleaned and conserved and will be displayed with a new support and fibre optic lighting.
Carved Neolithic stone ball, found in Thurso river by Robert Dick. The purpose of these balls remains unknown.
This stone has been cleaned and conserved and will be displayed with a new support abd fibre optic lighting.
Used as a weight for spinning wool.