Highland Objects Podcasts

Highland Objects Podcasts

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Highland Objects Podcasts episodes

  • John Rae's Fiddle

    Orcadian Dr John Rae was the most successful of all Victorian Arctic explorers, undertaking four expeditions. He is known to have taken fiddles on his expeditions. While on his travels music would have entertained everyone during the long Arctic nights.


    Location: Stromness Museum KW16 3DH


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    11 min
  • The Three Budhhas

    Three lovely marble statuettes of Buddha. They are most beautiful works of art and a valuable contribution to Nairn Museum made by Captain Henry Augustus Rose of Ruallan in 1918.


    Held at Nairn Museum, Nairn IV12 4EE


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    8 min
  • The Strange Plate

    The Strange Plate is an engraved copper printing plate It was made by Sir Robert Strange in 1746 on the instruction of Prince Charles Edward Stuart, and was intended to produce bank notes during the Jacobite Rising to fund the Jacobite cause.


    Object Location West Highland Museum Fort William PH33 6AJ


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    6 min
  • The Ballachulish Figure

    The Ballachulish Figure is an almost life-size humanoid wooden figure, found in 1880 during peat cutting in advance of building work at Ballachulish Moss, Lochaber.

     

    Location: Glencoe Folk Museum, Ballachulish PH49 4HS


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    10 min
  • The Soldiers Leap

    Magnificent wooded river gorge where, on 27 July 1689, the first shots in the Battle of Killiecrankie were fired in what was one of the goriest battles in Jacobite history. Soldier’s Leap is the spot where a Redcoat soldier leapt 18ft across the raging River Garry, fleeing the Jacobites.

     

    As told by the Highland Historian


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    11 min
  • The Rosemarkie Pictish Cross

    This Pictish cross-slab is fabulous – for its craftsmanship, its symbols and its Christian messaging. There are so many stories to share and questions to ask about its quarrying, design and context. Even its shape is unusual – it’s wider at the top than the bottom, giving the viewer the optical illusion that it is actually perfectly rectangular.

    Location: Groam House Museum IV10 8UF


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    11 min
  • 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, Rosemarkie, Fortrose IV10 8UF
    10 min
  • The Gunna Breac - Highland Objects Podcast Nine
    The Gunna Breac was a treasured possession of the MacDonalds of Dalchnosie and originally dates to the late 17th/early 18th centuries. It was brought to the Battle of Culloden (1746) by Alexander MacDonald who fought with the Atholl Brigade.  A fabulous piece of Jacobite history for all Outlander fans!
    8 min
  • The Hector Model - Highland Objects Podcast Eight
    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. It holds within it the origins of the people of Nova Scotia, who left Lochbroom in 1773 in search of a new world and new life.
    8 min
  • The Trepanned Skull - Highland Objects Podcast Seven
    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 for the presence of three drilled holes, which were set out in a roughly triangular shape. It is thought that the skull had been modified ‘post-mortem’. Why?
    9 min

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The Highland Objects project will progressively crowdsource and build a portfolio of podcasts, selected by you, which describe the variety of cultural objects available across the Highlands of…