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Crusie mould. A large round lump of stone with a deep leaf shaped depression in it, and the date 1745 carved into it.
Water rounded boulder, carved to make a crusie mould, type: long-nosed crusie. The date 1745 is carved on either side of the mould.
Inscription: 1745
Inscription: 1745
Cup. A fat silver cup with a stem and scalloped decoration around the base and foot.
Made by Roger Booth of Aberdeen, and given to William Machray by his students.
Inscription: GULIELMO MACHRAY M.A. A eximiam ejus se Graecis literis instituendi curam grato animo doni dedit orima Graeca classis Marischal. Coll. et Univeritatis…
Inscription: GULIELMO MACHRAY M.A. A eximiam ejus se Graecis literis instituendi curam grato animo doni dedit orima Graeca classis Marischal. Coll. et Univeritatis…
Cup. A lump of brown rock with black veins, with a cup shaped hollow carved out.
Cup in steatite, roughly triangular in shape with unperforated handle. Has staining from its use as a lamp. See also ABDUA 17419, one of a pair from a defended settlement on Damil Hill at Asloon, Alford. The Statistical Account says that the…
Cup. A plain cup made of a large piece of horn, with a glass bottom.
Horn cup, eighteenth century, with glass bottom. Allows the drinker to see if money ('the king's shilling') was hidden in the ale.
Cup. A small bowl like cup carved from a single piece of dark grey stone, with a blocky handle on one side.
Cup in steatite, with square tab handle.
Cup. A small bowl like cup made of carved and polished black and brown speckled stone, with a blocky handle projecting horizontally from one side.
Extremely finely polished surface, triangular tab handle. Was once in the 'museum' at the Burn o' Vat, from where it was purchased by Dr Johnson. Found near, or within, one of the hut circles on Culblean Hill.
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,…
Cups. Two simple cups made of horn, with silver rims inscribed MITCHELLS HOSPITAL OLD ABERDEEN 1801 No1 and No2.
Two horn beakers, with silver rims. Inscription on rim (1801 is the date of the establishment of Mitchell's Hospital).
Inscription: MITCHELLS HOSPITAL OLD ABERDEEN 1801 No1 & No2
Inscription: MITCHELLS HOSPITAL OLD ABERDEEN 1801 No1 & No2
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.