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Flute. Dark brown wooden flute with brass fittings.
Small flute in wood, silver mounted with a lever for the end stop, German. Polished wood case, with name plate showing that it belonged to William Thom, The Inverurie Poet (1798-1848).
Inscription: The flute which belonged to William Thom 'the…
Inscription: The flute which belonged to William Thom 'the…
Arrowhead. A small flint arrowhead lodged in a piece of wood.
Leaf-shaped flint arrowhead stuck in thorn tree wood.
Inscription: Old label: stone arrowhead stuck in tree the result of an ancient shot, CROMAR
Inscription: Old label: stone arrowhead stuck in tree the result of an ancient shot, CROMAR
Watch. Small, rusty pocket watch with a melted clockface. A label is attached which says: Bracelet watch found in wreckage after troop train disaster at Gretna Green 1915.
Remains of a soldier's wrist watch, found in wreckage of troop train disaster at Gretna Green, Dumfriesshire, 1905. Winding knob on side is visible, glass front is molten, no straps remain. Old hand-written label attached.
Watch. Tarnished silver pocket watch with copper hands and white clockface with roman numerals.
Silver pocket watch, quite thick and rounded, wound by a key and with Roman numerals. Made in Banff, Banffshire in the 19th century by John Wood, a watch and clockmaker. The back is hinged and the makerÔÇÖs name and trade is written inside the back…
Sundial. Two folding brass rings engraved with degrees, dots and lines with a central bar which has a slider on it and the first letter of each month. The slider has a tiny hole in it which light shines through.
Portable, ring sun dial. A small traveller's sundial, early 19th century. Two brass rings swing out at 90 degrees to each other, to make an open sphere, with a radial metal slider. The date is set on the slider, the sun shines through a hole in it…
Bull harness. A large iron collar with chains.
Bull jougs, a restraining harness, made of iron.
Keystone. A large, trapezoid piece of beige sandstone. Carved into the upper surface is a male figure with curly hair wearing a robe, sitting cross legged and holding a long boxy object.
Figure of angel playing portative organ, carved in local sandstone. Keystone from an arch, originally part of the 15th-century work of Elgin Cathederal. This sculpture and ABDUA 17828 were recovered from the ruins and kept at Montcoffer House,…
Saddle quern. A large oblong lump of dark granite, about half a metre long, with a deep carved oblong depression along the middle.
Saddle quern in granite.
Harpoon head. A large, smooth iron point about nine inches long with barbs and a shaft with BON ACCORD inscribed on it.
Inscription: BONACCORD R. LINN & CO 1828
Mace Head Witchstone
Unfinished mace head, hole not drilled through. Old Label: ' Witches stone from Cowton near Stonehaven 1875'
Inscription: in ink: Witchstone Rickerton 1875
Inscription: in ink: Witchstone Rickerton 1875