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Bullet mould. Two brass bars with six half spherical depressions, hinged together at the end. A spherical lead bullet sits in one of the depressions.
Brass mould, used in making six spherical leaden bullets (looks like nutcrackers with 6 matrices, each for a round shot). Steel pin and fastening hook. One lead shot accompanies. Scarred by hammermarks from casting shot.
Bullet moulds. A tongs like device with a box on the ends.
One matrix and inset for conical bullet and one matrix for spherical shot. Looks like a pair of heavy pliers, closed by an iron lever with two holes for pouring in lead while casting.
Inscription: on handle: No 25
Inscription: on handle: No 25
Brose Cap Bassie Bowl
Wooden bowl, turned out of a single piece of wood, repaired with iron clamps and hoop. Used for making brose (boiling water, milk or a mixture of both poured over oatmeal and stirred).
Ladle
Food ladle, in wood.
Threshing flail. Two wooden poles connected by a leather loop.
Threshing-flail in wood with joint in leather. Used in beating out seed.
Shovel Barn Shiel
Shovel, made from beech wood. It has a scooped blade for shovelling grain and a short handle with a looped hand-hold. Museum's Slip Catalogue: 'used on the Cowbog Farm, New Pitsligo, Aberdeenshire, from about 1900 to 1960'.
Yard and ell measure. A long wooden bar with projections at either end so that something a yard long would fit in the space between the projections. There are markings along the bar, and brass plates on the side at either end.
Measures an ell and imperial yard each in 1/2,1/4,1/16 and 1/32nd parts.
Kelchin. A large, square wooden rack about a foot wide with a handle and hook for hanging.
Kelchin, in wood, 19th century. Suspended in the chimney to hold 'fir-candles' while being dried. Made from two bars of squared wood into which are let six unworked pieces of branch, like a ladder, and the handle is a bent branch. The iron hook is…
Naphtha lamp. Small dark grey metal lamp with a broken glass bulb.
Naptha lamp, known as an 'oilie-bubblie', made of tin with a hook for hanging. Naptha is a flammable oil distilled from the oil shales of central Scotland. This lamp has a pear-shaped metal body with a wick at the top, and a glass funnel. The naptha…
Kail gully. An iron tool with a thick wooden handle, about three feet long. The handle is round with a square end with a metal ring on it. The head of the tool consists of a twisted rod of iron with a wide S shaped projection on the end.
Kail gully, a cutting implement used to harvest kail, used in the 19th century. Wooden handle, with an iron candy-twist shaft and a steel blade.