| <a href="http://calms.abdn.ac.uk/Geology/dserve.exe?dsqIni=Dserve.ini&dsqApp=Archive&dsqCmd=Show.tcl&dsqDb=Catalog&dsqPos=0&dsqSearch=%28ObjectNumber%3D%27ABDUA%3A17651%27%29">ABDUA:17651</a> | sword hunting.sword knife | | |
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Description:Dress sword, deer horn hilt, leather scabbard. Scabbard also holds knife with deer horn handle and mountings in gilded brass. Type: couteau de chasse. Reid (1912): 'Sword belonged to Campbell of Glencoe, the perpetrator of the Massacre of Glencoe. Sword was preserved by the family of Mr Garden Campbell of Troup and Glenlyon, and presented to Dr Robert Wilson.' [show more]
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| <a href="http://calms.abdn.ac.uk/Geology/dserve.exe?dsqIni=Dserve.ini&dsqApp=Archive&dsqCmd=Show.tcl&dsqDb=Catalog&dsqPos=0&dsqSearch=%28ObjectNumber%3D%27ABDUA%3A17727%27%29">ABDUA:17727</a> | nocturnal.instrument | | |
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Description:Wooden instrument to tell the time by the stars. Large circular plate with months marked, smaller plate, pointing arm revolving from centre of large plate. Reverse side marked as a compass and date (1511) though this is said not to be true, that this type of nocturnal was developed long after this date. Given to Alexander Thomson by Rev D J Arthur. Inscription: On front: months On reverse: compass marks and MDXI (1511). [show more]
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| <a href="http://calms.abdn.ac.uk/Geology/dserve.exe?dsqIni=Dserve.ini&dsqApp=Archive&dsqCmd=Show.tcl&dsqDb=Catalog&dsqPos=0&dsqSearch=%28ObjectNumber%3D%27ABDUA%3A178%27%29">ABDUA:178</a> | spatula lime.spatula | | |
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Description:Carved wooden lime spatula, decorated with female figure with glass beads (red), and shell beads (red). Hunt(1981): 'Betel chewing is practised widely in Melanesia. The betal mixture consists of nut of the areca palm, fruit or leaves of the betel pepper, and lime made by burning coral or shells. The lime is kept in bamboo vessels or gourds and is taken with a wood or bone spatula.' [show more]
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| <a href="http://calms.abdn.ac.uk/Geology/dserve.exe?dsqIni=Dserve.ini&dsqApp=Archive&dsqCmd=Show.tcl&dsqDb=Catalog&dsqPos=0&dsqSearch=%28ObjectNumber%3D%27ABDUA%3A17846%27%29">ABDUA:17846</a> | ink.stand ink.well | | |
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Description:China ink stand, blue and white delftware. Once the property of Wodrow the Church Historian (Robert Wodrow 1679-1734). Inscription: Old label: Inkstand of Wodrow the Historian
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Description:Type: Class 1. Front: double-disc & Z-rod Back: flower & mirror & comb
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| <a href="http://calms.abdn.ac.uk/Geology/dserve.exe?dsqIni=Dserve.ini&dsqApp=Archive&dsqCmd=Show.tcl&dsqDb=Catalog&dsqPos=0&dsqSearch=%28ObjectNumber%3D%27ABDUA%3A17965%27%29">ABDUA:17965</a> | coat jerkin | | |
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Description:Coat or jerkin in buff leather. Worn in the time of Charles I. Sent from Hungary to David Stuart of Inchbreck by one of his family in 1650.
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Description:Magic lantern, or projector in iron. An oil-burning lamp, circular, well-ventilated with a single handle and provision for insertion of slides. There is a removable condenser and a front lens with metal lens cover. Catalogued 1971, but acquired before then. [show more]
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| <a href="http://calms.abdn.ac.uk/Geology/dserve.exe?dsqIni=Dserve.ini&dsqApp=Archive&dsqCmd=Show.tcl&dsqDb=Catalog&dsqPos=0&dsqSearch=%28ObjectNumber%3D%27ABDUA%3A18075%27%29">ABDUA:18075</a> | pot cauldron | | |
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Description:M. 3. ROMAN BRONZE POT, found about the year 1837, at the late farm of Flabbits, Durris, Kincardineshire. Injured by the plough that turned it up.
Bronze pot or cauldron, three legs, bellied body & flaring neck, two handles. Plough damage.
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| <a href="http://calms.abdn.ac.uk/Geology/dserve.exe?dsqIni=Dserve.ini&dsqApp=Archive&dsqCmd=Show.tcl&dsqDb=Catalog&dsqPos=0&dsqSearch=%28ObjectNumber%3D%27ABDUA%3A18387%27%29">ABDUA:18387</a> | compass | | Silver compass, in a round red box. Used by Robert Wilson in his Eastern travels, 1820-1823. |
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Subject:Silver compass, in a round red box. Used by Robert Wilson in his Eastern travels, 1820-1823. |
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| <a href="http://calms.abdn.ac.uk/Geology/dserve.exe?dsqIni=Dserve.ini&dsqApp=Archive&dsqCmd=Show.tcl&dsqDb=Catalog&dsqPos=0&dsqSearch=%28ObjectNumber%3D%27ABDUA%3A18701%27%29">ABDUA:18701</a> | branks gag | | |
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Description:Gag (branks type), with tongue-like projection and curled projections on head.
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