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The mysterious Ballachulish figure is a roughly life-sized figure of a girl or goddess, carved from a single piece of alder, with pebbles for eyes. It was found during building work in November 1880, under deep peat. It was lying face down on the gravel of an old raised beach, around 120 metres from the shore of Loch Leven. It might originally have stood beside a pool. The figure has been radiocarbon-dated to around 600 BC, making it over 2,500 years old, and belonging to a period when iron was beginning to be used in Scotland.
Ballachulish figure fact file
Date c.600 BC
Found November 1880, in Ballachulish, Nether Lochaber, Inverness-shire, Scotland
Made from Alder, with quartzite pebbles for eyes
Dimensions Height 1390mm, length 145mm, width 190mm
Museum reference X.KL 54
On display Early People, Level -1, National Museum of Scotland
https://www.nms.ac.uk/ballachulishfigure
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