Cnoc Fhillibhir Bheag, Stone Circle, Calanais.

The Nicolson Institute Secondary Department c1900. This is now Stornoway's Museum.

Point Street and Francis Street, Stornoway, c. 1910

Packing Herring, Stornoway, c. 1900

Gutting Herring, Stornoway, c. 1910

Bringing home the peats, c.1900

Seagull.

The Lewis Chess Pieces The Lewis chess pieces - described as "the greatest chessmen of the European Middle Ages" - were discovered in the spring of 1831 by Malcolm Macleod of Penny Donald, Uig, in the sand dunes of Uig Bay. In all seventy eight chess pieces are known, together with fourteen gaming pieces and a finely carved belt buckle found together with them. Malcolm Macleod sold the pieces on to a Stornoway merchant, Roderick Ryrie or Pyrie and by April 1831, eighty two of these had been purchased by the British Museum. Later in the century, eleven pieces were acquired by the National Museums of Scotland.

The Lewis Chess Pieces The chesspicces were made in the late 12th century - perhaps in the area of Trondheim, Norway carved from Walrus ivory. The hoard was perhaps originally the possession of a Norwegian merchant seeking sales in Lewis and lost in circumstances we shall never know.

Late 10th/Early 11th Century rune stone and cross from Cille Bharra, Isle of Barra.

Viking 'hack silver' hoard dating to around AD 990 - AD 1040, found in a cowhorn purse in Stornoway Castle grounds.

Reproduction Norse clothes and Upright Loom

Detail from inside the Norse House Reconstruction display

Viking boat stem, 9-11th century. This unfinished wooden post end was discovered in the peat on the island of Eigg in the 19th century.