Handled cooking bowl of steatite from Houlland, Unst, Shetland, 800 - 1100 AD

Cooking bowl of steatite, incomplete, from Houlland, Unst, Shetland

Decorated steatite cup from Binney Craig

Sandstone cup ribbed on the outside, from Breckigoe, Thrumster, Caithness

Cup of steatitic stone, with remains of handle and ornamented with incised lines, from a 'Pict's House', Knockargity, Aberdeenshire

Small square finished steatite bowl, from Shetland

Cup of greenstone, with short handle, from Gallow-flat, Rutherglen, Lanarkshire

Cup of schist from Meikle Ussie House

Broken cup of stone from Bellvanrock Quarry, Broxburn, West Lothian

Mortar-like stone vessel forming a small basin, formerly believed capable of effecting miraculous cures, from Cladh Chrisoid, Harris, Inverness-shire

Fragment of glass, from Fendom Sands, Tain, Ross and Cromarty, Scotland

Cauldron ring handle, one of a hoard of forty four bronze items consisting of the ring of a large cauldron and fragments of spearheads, swords and dagger blades, from Duddingston Loch

Fragment of thin decorated sheet bronze from the rim of a vessel from a hoard from Adabrock, Lewis, Late Bronze Age, 950 - 750 BC

Fragment of thin sheet bronze from the body of a vessel from a hoard from Adabrock, Lewis, Late Bronze Age, 950 - 750 BC

Cauldron formed of thin plates of bronze riveted together, from Kincardine Moss, 600 - 400 BC

Copper alloy tankard handle decorated with bosses in the centre, from Carlingwark Loch, Kirkcudbrightshire, 80 - 200 AD