Top 100 objects

Browse key artefacts from our properties across the country.

Displaying 41-60 of 100

Lock and key

Storing gunpowder was a dangerous business.

Object number DUM368

Time Period: 18th century, Modern

Property Information: Dumbarton Castle

Object type: Key

Man trap

Poachers and trespassers in the late 1700s and early 1800s had to watch out for man traps.

Object number DEER01

Time Period: Modern

Property Information: Deer Abbey

Object type: Man trap/Trap

Incised stone

Pictish decoration has been carved into this stone block found in Orkney.

Object number GUR018

Time Period: Early medieval, Medieval

Property Information: Broch Of Gurness

Object type: Carved stone

Trebuchet ball

This heavy ball was made to be hurled at a castle’s defences from a siege machine known as a trebuchet.

Object number BTH/o/39

Time Period: Medieval

Property Information: Bothwell Castle

Object type: Trebuchet ball

Barrow

A large coke barrow used at Biggar Gasworks, South Lanarkshire, in the mid-20th century.

Object number BG.02.18

Time Period: Modern

Property Information: Biggar Gasworks

Object type: Barrow

Toy soldiers and horses

These wooden toy soldiers and horses were found hidden below flooring at Stirling Castle.

Object number E362

Time Period: Modern

Property Information: Stirling Castle

Object type: Toy

Corbel

A lion with a wavy mane, its tongue sticking out a little, is carved into the outer face of this corbel.

Object number SPP002

Time Period: Late medieval, Medieval

Property Information: Spynie Palace

Object type: Corbel

Column base

The bottom of this column base from St Andrews Cathedral shows us how a stonemason would set out designs in the early 1200s.

Object number SAC/cb/5

Time Period: Medieval

Property Information: St Andrews Cathedral

Object type: Column base

Grave slab - Gilbride MacKinnon

Used as a grave slab, this 14th-century stone bears a sculpture of Gilbride, chief of the Mackinnons.

Object number IONA207

Time Period: Medieval

Property Information: Iona Abbey

Object type: Effigy

Leabaidh (Box bed)

Cosy and private, this box-bed was built to provide a good night’s sleep at the Blackhouse, Arnol.

Object number ARN089

Time Period: Modern

Property Information: Arnol No 42 Blackhouse

Object type: Bed; Leabaidh

Cliabh (Peat basket)

Women used wicker baskets like this one to collect peat to use as fuel.

Object number ARN094

Time Period: Modern

Property Information: Arnol No 42 Blackhouse

Object type: Peat basket/Basket; Cliabh

Canopied stall

This ornate bishop’s stall from the choir at Dunblane Cathedral bears the arms of Bishop James Chisholm (1487–1526).

Object number DBL036

Time Period: Late medieval, Medieval

Property Information: Dunblane Cathedral

Object type: Choir stall

Mass-dial

Monks at Inchcolm Abbey used this medieval sundial to get to their prayers on time.

Object number INCL/o/5a+b

Time Period: Medieval

Property Information: Inchcolm Abbey

Object type: Mass dial

Hatchment - Viscount of Strathallan

Used as a memorial to someone who had died, a ‘hatchment’ would carry the deceased’s coat of arms.

Object number INP001

Time Period: 19th century, Modern

Property Information: Innerpeffray Chapel

Object type: Hatchment

Hatchment - Clementina 11th Countess of Perth

A ‘hatchment’ was a memorial to someone who had died and would feature the deceased’s coat of arms.

Object number INP002

Time Period: 19th century, Modern

Property Information: Innerpeffray Chapel

Object type: Hatchment

Tapestry - The Unicorn is Found [R]

A modern version of the medieval Hunt of the Unicorn tapestry series graces the walls of the Royal Palace at Stirling Castle.

Object number STC189

Time Period: 21st century, Modern

Property Information: Stirling Castle

Object type: Tapestry

Stencil

This copper stencil with handle was used to mark whisky barrels at Dallas Dhu Distillery.

Object number DHU039

Time Period: 20th century, Modern

Property Information: Dallas Dhu Distillery

Object type: Stencil

Photograph

A photo of the employees of Dallas Dhu Distillery, taken in the spring of 1920.

Object number DHU452

Time Period: 20th century, Modern

Property Information: Dallas Dhu Distillery

Object type: Photograph

Glass vessel fragments (Islamic)

These small fragments of glass probably came from a drinking beaker.

Object number OCAE027

Time Period: Medieval

Property Information: Old Caerlaverock Castle

Object type: Glass

Print - Crichton Castle (East Side of the Court Yard)

An engraving of Crichton Castle by R.

Object number E6379

Time Period: 19th century, Modern

Property Information: Crichton Castle

Object type: Print

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