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Shot Flask & Powder Flask
Pistol powder flask, in brass and white metal, for holding gun powder. Shape: flattened pear-like.
Inscription: G&JW Hawksley
Inscription: G&JW Hawksley
Heckle Heckle Comb
Wooden handle, iron teeth and tang. Tang is heart-shaped, with central rib. Used in dressing flax.
Heckle Heckle Comb
Heckle for dressing flax, with wooden frame (one end is broken) and iron teeth, carder shape: rectangular. Reid 1912, p45, has illustration labelled A508, but the illustration is actually of A509 (a bigger heckle with round carder).
Communion plate. A deep pewter plate.
Pewter bowl with a flat, but uneven, rim.
Beaker Cup Communion Beaker
Pewter communion beaker, cylindrical with flared rim, used in the Kirk of Clola (on the cross roads behind Fraserburgh and Peterhead). Engraved ' Assi Conn Clola 1812' and with a maker's mark.
Inscription: ASSl CONn CLOLA 1812 Makers mark: W DREW…
Inscription: ASSl CONn CLOLA 1812 Makers mark: W DREW…
Crusie lamp. Two leaf shaped iron dishes fastened to a handle with a hook. The upper dish is lidded and hangs on a ratchet above the lower dish.
Crusie, or oil lamp.
Pipe mould. Two thick pieces of metal, each with half a pipe shaped depression. One piece has pegs which fit into holes on the other piece.
Mould, in iron, for making clay pipes. Used in Aberdeen c. 1900.
Fish Slice Bannock Spade
Aluminium 'fish slice', or perhaps a 'bread spade'. The slice is 'D' shaped and decorated with a 28 holes punched to form a diamond shape, surrounded by a double arc of punched holes. One of a number of items donated by Mrs Argo of Aberdeen, all…
Pot. An iron cauldron shaped pot with a handle.
Flat-bottomed iron pot with handle. One of a number of items (eg ABDUA 15895 to 15915) donated by Mrs Argo of Aberdeen, some of which were used on the farm of Darnabo, near Fyvie, Aberdeenshire. Most of the items date to the early 20th century,…
Flanged Axe Axe Axehead
Bronze axe head, flanged. Type: Premnay Group, Class III (Coles 1983); Lissett (Schmidt & Burgess 1981).