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A traditional fish-wife's cottage with an earth floor and many of its original furnishings. It is a low, single storey building, with a rendered exterior beaneath a tiled roof. The cottage stands out amidst its larger, more modern neighbours, and is a stone's throw from the sea, on Shore Street.
26 Shore Street,
Inverallochy,
Grampian,
Scotland
16th century L-shaped tower house visited and lived in by Mary Queen of Scots in 1566. The ground floor kitchen is cobbled and barrel vaulted. Engraved glass panels, paintings, documents and relics tell the story of Mary Queen of Scots.
Queen Street,
Jedburgh,
Borders,
Scotland,
TD8 6EN
Victorian Gothic building houses Victorian and other Scottish paintings and local history collection.
Albert Square,
Dundee,
Angus and Dundee,
Tayside,
Scotland,
DD1 1DA
The former village school houses an outstanding collection of red sandstone early Christian monuments, including cross slabs, recumbent gravestones, architectural carved stones, and a hogback grave stone. There are also displays illustrating life and art of the Picts who produced these outstanding works of sculpture.
Meigle,
Tayside,
Scotland,
PH12 8SB
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Museum Heritage Highlight: The best single collection of Pictish sculptured stones in Britain. Superb. Heritage Rating:? Location: 5 miles west of Glamis, on the A94. The museum is signposted as 'Pictish Stones'.
Outstanding example of mid- 19th century cruck frame cottage and byre with many original features. Furnished, collection of clothing.
Glen Lochay Road,
Killin,
Central Scotland,
Scotland
Small collection of cars and motorcycles, including Ford Model T, 1937 Bentley, 1929 Rolls Royce Phantom, 1968 Jaguar.
Bridge Street,
Elgin,
Moray,
Grampian,
Scotland,
IV30 2DE
Local museum tracing the long history of Sbernethy and region, located in the grounds of the former Culdees monastery. The main focus of the museum is the Round Tower of Abernethy, one of only two Irish style round towers in Scotland, and the rich Pictish history of the region.
School Wynd,
Abernerthy,
Tayside,
Scotland,
PH2 9JJ
Outstation of the National Museums of Scotland. Aircraft on display range from a 1930 Puss Moth monoplane to a 1945 Spitfire. Exhibits include trainer cockpits, engines, scale models and Battle of Britain.
East Fortune Airfield,
Haddington,
Lothian,
Scotland,
EH39 5LF
Take a guided tour to the top of Kinnaird Head lighthouse, a 16th century castle converted into a lighthouse by famed Scottish engineer Robert Stevenson. The museum contains a large collection of lighthouse equipment and a multi-media AV presentation.
Kinnaird Head,
Stevenson Road Fraserburgh,
Grampian,
Scotland,
AB43 9DU
An historic water-powered oatmeal mill in a beautiful setting near Sweetheart Abbey. The mill is a lovely three-storey whitewashed stone building set beside Pow Burn. It was erected in the late 18th century by the Stewart family of Shambellie House, on a site probably used by the Cistercian monks from the nearby abbey.
An 18th century planned industrial village located on the floor of the deep gorge of the River Clyde by the Clyde Falls. The site features restored millworker houses, village store and working textile machinery, and offers walks along the river.
New Lanark,
Strathclyde,
Scotland,
ML11 9DB
Local museum with sections on history, archaeology and natural history. Exhibits on gold and seabirds.
School Road,
North Berwick,
Lothian,
Scotland,
EH39 4JU
