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Carding combs. Two large rectangular wooden combs with handles. A large number of small iron pins, bent slightly in the middle, project from the bodies of the combs.
A pair of carding combs, with backs in wood and teeth in iron wire, fixed in leather.
Carpet sample. A square piece of tartan carpet. Mainly red, with a narrow yellow and white grid pattern, a grid of wide bands of light and dark brown and mossy green, and dark blue, green and teal where the bands intersect.
Tartan-like woven especially for Balmoral Castle. Not tufted. Red, brown, green x 3, heather, olive, blue, dark blue, yellow, white, black-purple.
Inscription: Old label: Piece of Queen Victoria's Bedroom Carpet/Balmoral Palace/October 1858
Inscription: Old label: Piece of Queen Victoria's Bedroom Carpet/Balmoral Palace/October 1858
Carved Stone
Cup-marked stone(sandstone) found in heap of rubbish near he cist found at Catterline.
Carved Stone
Cup-marked stone (sandstone) found in heap of rubbish near the cist found at Catterline.
Carved Stone Ball Ball Stone Ball
Type: 9b, with six large knobs, made of a pale-coloured sandstone. Each knob is carved with a similar pattern of three concentric rings with a central boss. The ball was found at Cairnroben, Banchory Devenick, Kincardineshire during the middle of…
Carved Stone Ball Ball Stone Ball
Type:4b (6K), made of granite, with six large, well-defined knobs, about 4mm high.
Carved stone ball. About the size of a cricket ball, made of coarse dark brown stone and carved with a spiral around its whole surface.
Made from a coarse granite, slightly flattened. Type: 9a. Decoration: spiral carving.
Carved stone ball. Roughly the size of a soft ball. Beige stone ball with 30 large round knobs arranged irregularly.
Type: 7 (30 knobs), oblate, made of granite. The distribution of the knobs over the surface of the ball is not quite regular.
Carved stone ball. Roughly the size of a tennis ball. Beige stone ball with four large, flat circular knobs equidistant from each other. Three of the knobs have different spiral and rose like designs cut on them.
Type: 9b (4 knobs), made of serpentine. Three of the knobs are finely carved, each with a different design. In the 19th century this ball was part of the collection of Aboyne Castle, Aberdeenshire.
Carved stone ball. Roughly the size of a tennis ball. Black stone ball, very round and polished smooth except for a triangular shaped depression on one side which has six shallow round knobs arranged in a pyramid pattern.
Type: 9d, made of a dark stone, possibly gabbro. Decoration: smooth apart from six small knobs within a trefoil-shaped depression. Marshall (1977): 'It has been suggested that this might be an unfinished ball but, compared with the unfinished…