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Bead
Colour: yellow and black, twisted together to form a spiral pattern. Type: North Scottish spiral-decorated bead (Guido 1978, Class 13; Ralston & Inglis 1984).
Bead
Colours: blue bead with yellow, white and red spirals. Shape: triangular. Type: North Scottish spiral-decorated bead (Guido 1978, Class 13). Ralston & Inglis (1984): 'Made by twisting different colours of glass together, and then marvering the…
Bead
Shape: egg-like. Was found on the Mains of Concraig near remains of a stone circle.
Bead
Shape: spherical. Colour: white. Found near the Vitrified Fort on the Tap o' Noth at Rhynie, Aberdeenshire by the owner of the land, who gave them to Mr Fraser.
Bead
Colours: green bead with yellow spiral. Shape: globular. Type: Meare spiral (Guido 1978, Class 10).
Bead. A small pale blue star shaped bead with six points and a hole in the centre, made of a rough ceramic like material.
Shape: 6-pointed star.
Bead. A small, fat ring shaped bead made of greenish grey glass, with scratches and scuffs.
Shape: flat, circular. Colour: blue green. Type: Plain annular bead (Guido 1978). From a 'stone circle' at Castlehill, Kintore. Ralston & Inglis (1984): 'The 'Castle Hill' was destroyed during the construction of the railway in mid-Victorian…
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…
Beaker. A glass beaker with a squat stem and foot. Small raised discs of glass decorate the lower outside of the body. The beaker is painted with rows of dots and arches in white, red and gold; and diamonds surrounded by scrolls. There is a coat of arms with the shield quartered, in two opposite quarters is a black bird foot on gold and in the other red and white vertical triangles. The shield has a crown on top and ribbons around it.
Originally the property of Paul Menzies of Kinmundy. The glass is possibly Venetian in origin. Decoration: extruded forms (applied) & coat of arms & linear & scroll designs. Cylindrical body, squat, with stem.
Inscription: ANNO 1667
Inscription: ANNO 1667