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Top 100 objects

Browse key artefacts from our properties across the country.

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Leabaidh (Box bed)

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)

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/5

Time Period: Medieval

Property Information: Inchcolm Abbey

Object type: Mass dial

Hatchment - Viscount of Strathallan

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

Tapestry - The Unicorn is Found [R]

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 of distillery workers

Photograph of distillery workers

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)

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)

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

Telescope

A brass telescope thought to have belonged to the first lighthouse keeper at Kinnaird Head.

Object number KH213

Time Period: Modern

Property Information: Kinnaird Head

Object type: Telescope

Cauldron

Food was once cooked over open fires in cauldrons like this one.

Object number TANT156

Time Period: 17th century, Post-medieval

Property Information: Tantallon Castle

Object type: Cauldron

Tape weaving loom

Tape weaving loom

Narrow cotton tapes were made on looms like this at Stanley Mills from the 1930s to 1976.

Object number STN242

Time Period: Modern

Property Information: Stanley Mills

Object type: Loom

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

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

Painting: Sergeant A Lawrence of the Dumbarton Volunteer Rifle Corps

Painting: Sergeant A Lawrence of the Dumbarton Volunteer Rifle Corps

In 1882, Sergeant Lawrence won the Queen’s Prize at Wimbledon – a top shooting prize.

Object number DUM178

Time Period: 19th century, Modern

Property Information: Dumbarton Castle

Object type: Painting

Painting - View of the Clyde and Dumbarton Rock

Painting - View of the Clyde and Dumbarton Rock

Painted in the 1850s, this oil landscape shows Dumbarton Rock from the south bank of the River Clyde.

Object number DUM373

Time Period: 19th century, Modern

Property Information: Dumbarton Castle

Object type: Painting

Lock and key

Storing gunpowder was a dangerous business.

Object number DUM368

Time Period: 18th century, Modern

Property Information: Dumbarton Castle

Object type: Key

Mons Meg

This six-tonne siege gun is what cutting edge military technology once looked like.

Object number XIX.13

Time Period: Late medieval, Medieval

Property Information: Edinburgh Castle

Object type: Bombard/Cannon

Pig iron ingot

An iron ‘pig’ or ingot made at Invergarry Furnace.

Object number BON019

Time Period: 18th century, Modern

Property Information: Bonawe Iron Furnace

Object type: Ingot

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