Come #sketch with me in my favourite place in Edinburgh, @ntlmuseumsscot.bsky.social! Starting with the best rock, orbicular granodiorite from Australia 🪨 #SciArt #illustration

But today, I’m here for some less ancient history: let’s head downstairs to the Beginnings and Early People galleries. Covering everything from the first people in Scotland to 1,100 CE! Featuring: a Roman spoon, an arrowhead and a beard comb 🥄 #archaeology

Two spindle wheels, a whalebone plaque and a bronze ingot join the page 🐋 Really enjoying working with this muted earthy palette!

Another page filled: a pottery fragment, a faience bead (an early precursor to glass), a key made from bone, a bronze brooch and a carving of a Viking ship. About 2,500 years of Scottish history covered on just one page ✏️

Welcome to the early Kingdom of the Scots: an adorable bird figurine, three painted pebbles and a Pictish carving of a boar 🐗

This comb won’t do much combing anymore.