225 million
This is the age of the oldest object among the 90,000 held by Dumfries and Galloway Council Museums.
The fossilised prehistoric animal prints can be found at Dumfries Museum and Camera Obscura.
Dumfries and Galloway Council museums have over 20,000 hits on their websites each month and visitors can view such unusual objects as a bench that took eight members of staff to move into the Robert Burns Centre recently!
The bench was made by John Crosby, a furniture maker from Auchencairn. It was constructed from one of the elms felled at Ellisland Farm, the home of Robert Burns. The elm would have been growing at Ellisland when Burns was farming there.