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Tuskar. A spade with a long, rounded rectangular iron blade and a wooden handle. The blade has a flattened spike or wing projecting from it perpendicularly on the end on one side.
Peat spade (or tuskar) with broad, round-ended blade and short wing that is typical of Aberdeenshire. The spade might be used vertically or horizontally, according to the type of peat bed. The end of the spade and the wing are made from a single…
Dibbler. A wooden bar about half a metre long with three fat pegs projecting from it. Projecting from the other side are two rods attached to a bar with handles.
Three drill dibbler. used for planting seed.
Yarnet. A rectangular wooden box about a foot and a half lonf with a handle.
Wooden 'yarnet' - used in holding yarn to be made into skeins or wound into balls.
Curracks. A large wooden frame about a foot and a half wide and tall. The frame is L shaped with bars across it. The sides of the horizontal part curve upwards toward the tips, and the bar across the top of the vertical part has a loop of rope attached.
Pair of wooden currachs, used as panniers for carrying fuel etc.
Inscription: stamped I. P.
Inscription: stamped I. P.
Spinning wheel. A wooden apparatus almost a metre tall, consisting of a frame with a pedal at the bottom, a large wheel with decoratively turned spokes, and a device at the top with a spindle and small metal hooks.
Spinning wheel, type: saxony upright.
Jack reel. Wooden apparatus about a metre tall, consisting of a tray on three legs and a central column with metal gears. A large knob, from which project six long rods with handles at the end, is at the top of the column connected to the gears.
Jack reel or wool winder, in wood. Inscription (maker's name?) on top, carved into the wood. Slip catalogue and accessions book gives number (525+1) and donor (Margaret A Morris), plus following information: 1 Carder H:450mm B:350mm. But this part of…
Pin
Loose ring-headed pin, pin shape: flat (end). Two pins found together, close to or within the hut circles on Culblean Hill in united parishes of GlenMuick, Tullich & Glengairn. Fanning (1983) states that such pins are 'shroud fasteners'. Also that…
Pin
Loose ring-headed pin, pin shape: round. Two pins found together, close to or within the hut circles on Culblean Hill in united parishes of GlenMuick, Tullich & Glengairn. Fanning (1983) states that such pins are 'shroud fasteners'. Also that…
Barometer. Large barometer, about a metre tall, with a glass tube containing mercury. The wooden frame is elaborately carved at the top in a triangular shape with scrolls on the sides and a rose at the top. The body is covered with paper which has the instructions printed on and is decorated with gothic arches and trefoils.
Rectangular barometer, with thermometer and altimeter (broken). Display: column.
Inscription: Admiral Fitzroy's
Inscription: Admiral Fitzroy's