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Pair of ear-rings, made from gold beads and human hair. Hook decorated with a leaf-like design in gold.

Pair of fetters, for the ankles, made of iron with a short (three link) chain between the two leg pieces. Screw lock for each leg piece. Decoration, lock (bottom):circle design (repeat chevrons).

Fir gully or knife, with an iron blade and wooden handle. From Cults, Aberdeenshire. The knife was used to cut 'fir candles', splinters of wood from pine trees. This knife has been hafted into a home-made handle and is held in place with a thin…

Knife or fir gully, with an iron blade and a manufactured wooden handle held in place with a decorated brass ferrule (decoration: incised bands & rings). The knife was used to cut fir candles, strips of wood from pine trees.

Aluminium 'fish slice', or perhaps a 'bread spade'. The slice is 'D' shaped and decorated with a 28 holes punched to form a diamond shape, surrounded by a double arc of punched holes. One of a number of items donated by Mrs Argo of Aberdeen, all…

Glaze colour: dark tan. Handle type: pulled. Neck shape: short.
Inscription: FOUND IN RORA MOSS LANGSIDE 50FT DOWN

5 flint flakes, burned. One is a probable thumbnail scraper. Found in 1904 among the cremated bones in an urn at the farm of Seggiecrook. Museum's 'Slip Catalogue' records 6 flints, one is now missing.

Bronze axe head, flanged. Type: Premnay Group, Class III (Coles 1983); Lissett (Schmidt & Burgess 1981).

Bronze axe head , flanged. Found 'in a cairn'. Type: Auchterhouse Group, Class III (Coles 1963), Ulrome (Schmidt & Burgess 1981) but note that it is wrongly provenanced in S&B.