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Gunflint from Stoneyfield, Inverness
04 January 2021
Gunflint from Stoneyfield, Inverness ©Image Courtesy of Inverness Museum & Art Gallery As firearms became more common, they required a gunflint to help create the spark. They first a...Full Story
Bobbin from Contin Bobbin Mill
02 December 2020
This wooden bobbin was reputedly made at a bobbin mill at Contin, Easter Ross. A number of mills in the 19th and 20th century in northern Scotland manufactured bobbins for textile factories in the sou...Full Story
Russian Lead Cloth Seal from Cromarty
02 November 2020
Over 100 lead seals have been found in fields around Cromarty on the Black Isle. The seals were fixed to bales of flax and then hemp in the late 1700s and first half of the 1800s, affirming the qualit...Full Story
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04/07/2021 - Learn how to make salt!
Can you help with saltmaking? Clyne Heritage in Brora are looking for volunteers who would... More >>
16/06/2021 - FACET Project - Develop a new skill and get paid (a little) for it
ARCH has developed this brilliant project to train people to be community heritage facilit... More >>
02/05/2021 - FACET Project - now recruiting for 5 trainees
The ARCH FACET project is now live ... and we are currently recruiting for 5 trainees to d... More >>
Site of the Month
10/04/2021 - Easter Raitts township
Easter Raitts township Photo: Highland HER Although the Highlands is dotted with de... More >>
Find of the Month
10/04/2021 - Cruisie lamp in Dunrobin Castle Museum
© Anne MacInnes Cruisie (or crusie) lamps were formed of two boat-shaped iron ... More >>