Top 100 objects

Browse key artefacts from our properties across the country.

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Fire engine

Last used in 1929 to fight a fire at Glenlossie Distillery, this fire engine was pulled by a pair of horses.

Object number DHU018

Time Period: 19th century, Modern

Property Information: Dallas Dhu Distillery

Object type: Fire engine

Cross slab fragment

A carved stag sits with its legs doubled up beneath its body on the back of this cross slab fragment.

Object number VIG019

Time Period: Early medieval, Medieval

Property Information: St Vigeans

Object type: Cross slab

Double effigy - Walter Stewart 1st Earl of Menteith and Countess Mary

The couple shown in a last embrace in this double effigy are thought to be Walter Stewart, 1st Earl of Menteith, and his wife Mary – who was Countess of Menteith in her own right.

Object number INCM001

Time Period: Early medieval, Medieval

Property Information: Inchmahome Priory

Object type: Effigy

Shoe

Leather fragments found in the moat at Caerlaverock Castle have been used to reconstruct this adult shoe.

Object number CAER475

Time Period: 16th century, Post-medieval

Property Information: Caerlaverock Castle

Object type: Shoe

Cross

Anglian runes and Saxon letters feature heavily in the carvings of this free-standing cross of red sandstone.

Object number RTH001

Time Period: Early medieval, Medieval

Property Information: Ruthwell Church

Object type: Cross

Bridge timber

One of a number of bridge timbers found in the moat at Caerlaverock Castle.

Object number CAER571

Time Period: Medieval

Property Information: Caerlaverock Castle

Object type: Bridge

Monreith Cross

Galloway’s tallest known cross, the Monreith Cross, once stood at more than 3 metres high.

Object number WHP.EC.41

Time Period: Early medieval, Medieval

Property Information: Whithorn Priory Museum

Object type: Cross

St Oran's cross - fragments

St Oran’s Cross is thought to be the earliest of the Iona crosses.

Object number IONA080

Time Period: Early medieval,Medieval

Property Information: Iona Abbey

Object type: Cross

St John's Cross

St John’s Cross was once the finest of all the crosses on Iona.

Object number IONA082

Time Period: Early medieval,Medieval

Property Information: Iona Abbey

Object type: Cross

Sexfoil cup

This lavish drinking vessel made of glazed earthenware was found at Arbroath Abbey.

Object number ARB069

Time Period: Medieval

Property Information: Arbroath Abbey

Object type: Cup

Dupplin Cross

This early medieval was made around 800, when Kenneth MacAlpin was king of the Picts and Scots.

Object number DUP001.1

Time Period: Early medieval, Medieval

Property Information: St Serf's Church

Object type: Cross

Padlock

It was with this padlock that the Honours of Scotland – Scotland’s Crown jewels – were sealed away in 1707.

Object number EDIN089

Time Period: 18th century, Modern

Property Information: Edinburgh Castle

Object type: Lock

Decorative column

A lion’s head is among the ornate carvings on this column from the lower part of the King’s Fountain at Linlithgow Palace.

Object number LLP/o/42

Time Period: 16th century, Post-medieval

Property Information: Linlithgow Palace

Object type: Fountain

Shrine fragment

This ornately carved stone panel most likely formed the gable end of an enclosed shrine or sarcophagus (stone coffin) dating from the early 700s.

Object number JED076.1

Time Period: Early medieval, Medieval

Property Information: Jedburgh Abbey

Object type: Shrine

Spectacle frame fragment

Bone was used to make this piece of frame, once part of a pair of rivet spectacles.

Object number MEL354

Time Period: Early medieval, Medieval

Property Information: Melrose Abbey

Object type: Spectacles

Memorial - The Latinus Stone

The Latinus Stone is Scotland’s oldest surviving Christian memorial.

Object number WHP.EC.01

Time Period: Early medieval, Medieval

Property Information: Whithorn Priory Museum

Object type: Funerary monument

Hogback stone

This medieval grave marker with Viking links is from a raised piece of ground near Inchcolm Abbey.

Object number INCL/o/6

Time Period: Early medieval, Medieval

Property Information: Inchcolm Abbey

Object type: Hogback

Carved oak panel - The Crucifixion

Carved in oak, this panel shows the crucifixion of Jesus – and is a very rare survival of the Protestant Reformation.

Object number EDZ002.4

Time Period: 16th century, Post-medieval

Property Information: Edzell Castle

Object type: Panel

Figurine

Known both as the ‘Orkney Venus’ and the ‘Westray Wifie’, this Neolithic figurine is just 4cm tall.

Object number LON001

Time Period: Neolithic, Prehistoric

Property Information: Links of Noltland

Object type: Figurine

Shrine base

These eight stones once formed two bays of the base of a tomb or shrine.

Object number GLA/o/1a-i

Time Period: Medieval

Property Information: Glasgow Cathedral

Object type: Shrine

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