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  • Collection: Encyclopaedia of the North East

Hoof parers. Large, thick spatula shaped iron blades with wooden handles.

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Harness ornaments. Silver coloured metal ornaments, left to right: a pin with a tree like shape and suspended discs, two circular ornaments with scalloped edges and thistle decoration, and a ring with a suspended heart and cross.

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Belt plates. Two oval plates made of copper alloy, inscribed Gordon Highlanders and decorated with a thistle and crown.

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Snapped flakes. Four tiny flakes of grey, orange and cream coloured flint.

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Hammer stone. An oval shaped stone, roughly the size of a large potato, with two flattened and roughened patches on the top.

Flint cores. Three pieces of flint, one white, one deep red, the other orange, all with pieces chipped off them.

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Flint core. A large dull orange piece of flint about nine inches long, with smooth faces where smaller pieces have been chipped off.

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Flint axe and adze heads. Made of flint with sharpened edges, the adze rough and rectangular, the axe smooth and tapered.

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Flint knives. Clockwise from top left: A large light grey semi-circular knife, a small orange rectangular knife sharpened on both sides, a large dark grey pointed oval shaped knife, a small black rounded oval knife, and a small orange semi-circular knife.

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Yarn winders and yarn. Two wooden yarn winders consisting of a bar with bars on either end positioned perpendicular to each other, and a spool of yarn thread.

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