Top 100 objects

Browse key artefacts from our properties across the country.

Displaying 61-80 of 97

Bone gaming counter

This bone object is thought to be a playing piece from a Viking board game called Hnefatafl.

Object number DIRL018

Time Period: Early medieval, Medieval

Property Information: Dirleton Castle

Object type: Gaming counter

Dragonesque brooch

Several brooches from the time of Roman Britain were found at Edinburgh Castle during archaeological digs between 1988 and 1991.

Object number EDIN269

Time Period: Roman

Property Information: Edinburgh Castle

Object type: Brooch

Pole weapon

This is one of nine pole weapons linked with the Radical War of 1820, also known as the Scottish Insurrection.

Object number STC123

Time Period: 19th century, Modern

Property Information: Stirling Castle

Object type: Pole weapon

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

Gargoyle

Water once flowed from the mouth of this singing musician, on display at Dunfermline Abbey.

Object number DNF/rg/3

Time Period: 16th century, Post-medieval

Property Information: Dunfermline Abbey and Palace

Object type: Gargoyle/Drainage spout

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

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

Statue - Apollo

Originally a garden sculpture, this lead statue of Apollo once adorned the façade of Duff House.

Object number DUFF003

Time Period: 18th century, Modern

Property Information: Duff House

Object type: Statue

Statue - Mercury

Once a garden sculpture, this lead statue of Mercury later adorned the façade of Duff House – along with five others.

Object number DUFF005

Time Period: 18th century, Modern

Property Information: Duff House

Object type: Statue

Statue - Bacchus

This lead statue of Bacchus is one of six classical gods that once adorned the façade of Duff House.

Object number DUFF006

Time Period: 18th century, Modern

Property Information: Duff House

Object type: Statue

Niche statue - St Andrew

This finely carved 15th-century statue of St Andrew was originally found in Melrose Abbey.

Object number MEL/scp/13

Time Period: Medieval

Property Information: Melrose Abbey

Object type: Niche statue

Stirling Head - Jester

A full-length jester is carved on this oak medallion, part of the famous series of Stirling Heads.

Object number STC036

Time Period: 16th century, Post-medieval

Property Information: Stirling Castle

Object type: Carving

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

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

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

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

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

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

Effigy, Earl Walter and Countess Mary Stewart

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

St Andrews Sarcophagus - main panel

Experts still debate the exact form and purpose of this object in St Andrews Cathedral.

Object number SAC543a

Time Period: Early medieval, Medieval

Property Information: St Andrews Cathedral

Object type: Sarcophagus

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