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Button mould. A piece of slate with two depressions: the outline of a heart with a crown on top, and a disc with a cross in it.
Matrix design: cross & linear design.
Mace. Large silver ceremonial mace, about a metre long, with a crown and cross at the top.
The mace for Marischal College, still used today in the University graduation ceremonies.
Mace. A large silver ceremonial mace, almost a metre long, with a crown and cross at the top.
The mace of King's College made by Walter Melville of Aberdeen, 1650.
Book Document
Illustrated edition of Byron's poems.
Carved stone ball. Roughly the size of a tennis ball. Black, coarse stone ball with six large squarish knobs equidistant from one another.
Type: 4b, six knobs.
Carved stone ball. Roughly the size of a tennis ball. Brown stone ball, very round, with six large flat circular knobs equidistant from one another.
Type: 4a, 6 knobs, not very prominent.
Red grouse. Two taxidermy red grouse, pigeon sized birds with mottled brown, black, white and gold plumage. The birds are hanging by their feet.
Stuffed bird, red grouse, on loan from Zoology Museum.
Bead
Colours: green bead with yellow spiral. Shape: globular. Type: Meare spiral (Guido 1978, Class 10).
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
Shape: egg-like. Was found on the Mains of Concraig near remains of a stone circle.