Top 100 objects

Browse key artefacts from our properties across the country.

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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

Cross slab

Tall and majestic, this Pictish cross-slab may have been erected as part of a bigger structure inside the church at Meigle, Angus.

Object number MEIG002

Time Period: Early medieval, Medieval

Property Information: Meigle

Object type: Cross slab

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

Comb

This birch wood comb, made in the 1400s, is carved from one piece of wood.

Object number CAER175

Time Period: Medieval

Property Information: Caerlaverock Castle

Object type: Comb

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

Chain of Office

Before Leith merged with Edinburgh in 1920, it was a municipal burgh in its own right.

Object number TRH204

Time Period: Modern

Property Information: Trinity House

Object type: Chain of office

Niche statue - St Peter

This statue carries a book of scripture and the key of heaven, symbols usually linked with St Peter.

Object number MEL/scp/10

Time Period: Medieval

Property Information: Melrose Abbey

Object type: Niche statue

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

Stirling Head - Female courtier

Carved with the image of a female worthy, this oak roundel is one of the famous Stirling Heads.

Object number STC020

Time Period: 16th century, Post-medieval

Property Information: Stirling Castle

Object type: Carving

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

Niche statue - St Paul

A finely carved statue of St Paul from the 15th century, which originally graced Melrose Abbey.

Object number MEL/scp/11

Time Period: Medieval

Property Information: Melrose Abbey

Object type: Niche statue

Niche statue - The Virgin and Child

Though this Virgin and Child statue is damaged, its fine carving can still be admired.

Object number MEL/scp/12

Time Period: Medieval

Property Information: Melrose Abbey

Object type: Niche statue

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

Book: Guide to Doune Castle

The covers of this guide to Doune Castle are made of wood from the Old Gallows Tree that once stood by the castle gates.

Object number DOU026

Time Period: 19th century, Modern

Property Information: Doune Castle

Object type: Book

Window panel – figure of Christ

Glasgow Cathedral once had a series of ornate windows made by the Royal Bavarian Stained Glass Works, Munich.

Object number GLA001

Time Period: 19th century, Modern

Property Information: Glasgow Cathedral

Object type: Window glass

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