Horn closed at wider end with wooden plug, from the body of a man found at Gunnister in Northmavine, Shetland, late 17th century or later

Fragment of a horn of bronze, from Innermessan, Inch, Wigtownshire, 950 - 750 BC

Piece of horn handle from dagger, from Waulkmill, Tarland, Aberdeenshire

Fragment or fragments of bone and horn, from Kettleburn, Caithness

Portion of horn from Rosemarkie, Ross and Cromarty

Section of deer horn from Galson, Barvas, Lewis

Horn core, from Terp Mound, Aalzum, Friesland, Netherlands

Piece of horn from Robenhausen, Switzerland

Rim mount of silver, for an Anglo-Saxon blast horn, from Burghead, 850 - 890 AD

One of a collection of specimens illustrating the manufacture of Wedgwood pottery from Etruria, Staffordshire - presser's tool used in flat ware pressing - a horn used in finishing pressed ware: English, 1850s.

Container made from the horn of a cow with ivory inlay, the large end is closed with a ivory disk and the tip has an ivory fitting carved in the shape of a bird's head with flint beak, topped with a spoon : Ancient Egyptian, Upper Egypt, Thebes, Qurna, 2nd Intermediate Period, 17th Dynasty, c.1585-1545 BC

Horagai, a triton shell with a perforated spire and a metal mouthpiece, with silken shoulder cord and tassels attached, used by Buddhist mountain ascetics (yamabushi): Japan

Horn of red stained ivory bound with cordage at the wider end, and mouthpiece carved near smaller knobbed end: part of the regalia of Kwamin Intsiaku, Chief of Sarman: Africa, West Africa, Ghana, Asante people, pre 1903

Twisted horn or choro, rudely dressed on the outside, with a hole bored near the tip for sounding: Eastern Africa, Kenya, Kikuyu

Antelope horn, used as part of a tobacco pipe: Eastern Africa, Mozambique, Zambezi Delta, collected by Dr John Kirk, economic botanist on David Livingstone's Zambezi Expedition, 1858 - 1864

Horn or trumpet of elephant ivory carved with groups of figures arranged in six tiers around the horn with mouth piece on the side of narrow end: Africa, Central Africa, Republic of the Congo, Loango