Highland Objects Podcast
1) Bonus Podcast Four
Three Festive Feasts from The Highland Historian, The Highlanders Museum, and Castlehill Heritage Centre.Highland Christmas traditions, a memory of the Christmas Truce in WW1 and a Christmas shipwreck...Show More
2) Bonus Podcast 3 - Janet Nein Gibbie Gow
The spooky story of Janet Nien Gibbie Gow and the Witch Pricker courtesy of Tain Museum Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
3) The Ulbster Stone
Carved in the 8th century, this magnificent rock is named after the coastal village of Ulbster, south of Wick, where it was unearthed in 1770 in the graveyard at St. Martin’s Chapel. A few decades aft...Show More
4) Tarbat Blue Glass Stud
An object from Portmahomack it is a composite blue glass stud inlaid with silver wire and red enamel and was made in the Pictish monastic smiths’ hall of the Pictish monastery at Portmahomack. Th...Show More
5) The Gairloch Pictish Symbol Stone
The Gairloch Pictish Symbol Stone is a great example not only of Pictish carvings showing wildlife but also of the trials and tribulations of many Pictish stones which have had a chequered past betwee...Show More
6) Hilton of Cadboll Base Stone
On its discovery on the original site of the Hilton Stone, NMS lobbied/instructed that the base should be transported to Edinburgh to be exhibited alongside the larger section of the Stone already on ...Show More
7) George Bain Celtic-Design Bowl
A bright, intricate Celtic-design bowl created by a Celtic artist at the home of artist and educator George Bain’s house in Drumnadrochit in the 1940s. Location: Groam House Museum, High St, Rose...Show More
8) The Gunna Breac
The Gunna Breac was a treasured possession of the MacDonalds of Dalchnosie originally dating to the late 17th/early 18th centuries. It was brought to the Battle of Culloden (1746) by Alexander MacDona...Show More
9) The Hector Model
This 18th Century model of the Hector, which is heralded as ‘Canada’s Mayflower’ may seem innocuous, however the story that it depicts is one of suffering and destitution, yet hope and new beginnings....Show More
10) The Trepanned Skull
In 1903 an excavation at Hillhead Broch, a rather morbid discovery was made: a fragment of a human’s skull. This portion of bone – a fragment of the ‘parietal’ section of the skull – was notable ...Show More