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Arrowhead. A small orange, leaf shaped flint arrowhead with part of a wooden shaft. The arrowhead is fitted into a slit on the tip of the shaft.
Leaf-shaped flint arrowhead, part of wooden haft survives.
Axe head. A dark polished stone axe head about ten centimetres long, one end pointed and the other sharpened.
Small axe in green stone, in perfect condition. Pointed butt, curved sides, a curved cutting edge and an oval cross-section, with the sides blunted.
Cup. A small earthenware cup. The base is about half the size of the opening, and the body flares out dramatically at the middle producing a hexagonal profile. The sides are decorated with incised lines making a pattern of rough diamonds, alternately filled with diagonal lines going one way and another.
Decorated with a rough diamond-like pattern, fine incised lines running in opposite directions, giving a basket-like or woven impression. Small hole pierced through the shoulder. This cup was found in a collared urn (ABDUA: 19742) by Leslie Mutch,…
Razor. A small bronze razor, roughly ellipse shaped with a handle and sharpened on both sides. Running up the centre is a raised area which is decorated with an engraved diamond pattern.
Bronze razor with tang. Decoration on midribs - hatched lozenge pattern (engraved). Found with clay urn and burnt bones in short stone cist.
Pot. A small earthenware bowl with fragments missing. Curved dotted lines decorate the surface.
Round based, decoration: alternate hatching. Was found in the Den of Craig (or near to) Auchindoir. Supposedly in a 'cist'.
Inscription: Old label: 32
Inscription: Old label: 32
Mace head. A rounded rectangular block of black polished stone, with a perfectly circular hole about the size of a ten pence piece drilled through it near the centre.
Type: 'Thames pestle'
Terret. A bronze ring covered in a dark, smooth green patina. It has a small ring on one side. At the bottom of the main ring wide arms project from the sides and meet in the middle, curving up to a peg like projection.
Bronze ring: decoration : ridges.
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.
Pin head. A bronze disc about two inches wide with a knob in the centre and concentric circular depressions.
Type: sunflower. Found in hoard with 2 socketed axes and neck-ring. Part of William Joyner's collection, donated by his great-granddaughter, comprising the Dingwall hoard and two other bronzes, probably of African origin.
Flanged Axe Axe Axehead
Flanged bronze axe head from the stone circle at Tamnaverie.