Discover the special story of Scarborough’s ‘Skipping Day’ with an unusual skipping rope and bell Scarborough’s Skipping Day is a unique local tradition which began in the early 20th century and is still celebrated every Shrove Tuesday. The...
Climming Kit for Egg CollectingScarborough Museums and Galleries collection The word ‘climming’ refers to cliff climbing to collect the eggs of seabirds. For hundreds of years, people who lived close to Flamborough Head and Bempton cliffs used to the eggs...
Birch Bark Rolls from Star CarrRotunda Museum, Scarborough A number of very special objects have been found in the archaeological site ‘Star Carr’, dating from the Middle Stone Age or Mesolithic period. The objects found there, including these rolls of...
Click on the photo to enlarge this ammonite fossil from The Seaboard Centre in the Highlands of Scotland. Making sense of ammonite fossils What are ammonite fossils? Ammonites are extinct sea creatures with a spiral shell that lived millions of years ago. Today, they...
