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Goffering iron. A small torpedo shaped piece of iron at the end of a long rod with a wooden handle, next to a similarly shaped but hollow piece of iron on a stand.
A goffering iron, made of brass and iron. Resembles a poker.
Inscription: refer to file
Inscription: refer to file
Gorget. A large, gold crescent shaped plate decorated with leaves around the edges. It has a silver stamp with knotwork and a crown surrounded by cannons, axes and swords.
Copper gilt gorget with a silver gilt coat of arms. Shape:crescentic. Front decoration: flags & swords & guns & drums & cannon. Points decoration: foliate. The gorget of Major General James Ferguson of Balnakelly, Colonel of the Cameron Regiment…
Gown. A red gown with short sleeves and a dull purple velvet collar.
Gown or toga of Aberdeen University in red cloth. Student's toga, 1870.
Grave slab. A large rectangular block of grey stone about a foot and a half long, broken along the left edge and bottom. It is carved with a ring headed cross with eight spokes within the ring, part of a similar spoked ring on the left, and on the right a sword pointing downwards.
Grave slab dating from the medieval period, carved on sandstone (incomplete). It bears an incised ring-headed cross, with eight spokes within the ring, and part of another spoked ring on its right. On the left of the cross is the hilt and part of…
Grave slab. A large rectangular block of grey stone, about two feet tall. Carved in relief is a Celtic cross and a pair of shears.
Sandstone slab with relief decoration of a ring-head cross on a stepped base, and a pair of shears on right hand side.
Groat. A silver coin with the profile of a man wearing a crown and the inscription DAVID DEI GRA REX SCOTORUM around the edge on one side. The other side has a cross and stars and the inscription DNS PTECTOR MS Z LIBATOR MS VILL A A BERDON.
Silver coin, groat - 2nd issue. Obv: Bust of king (David II) to l., crowned and dividing, below the tressure which consists of six arches; before sceptre. Rev: (in two concentric circles; stops, crosses). Long cross pattee dividing legends with…