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  • Collection: Encyclopaedia of the North East

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Green broad bonnet, hand-knitted, wool. 'Worn by General Sir Alexander Leith, Glenkindie, Aberdeenshire' Reid (1912).

Axe head. A large, roughly triangular axe head in coarse beige stone.
Type: splayed.

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Horn sheets. Three rectangular sheets of clear horn.
Shape: rectangular.

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Thraw cruik. A long hook shaped wooden rod, with a cord tied across the bend of the hook. There is a wooden handle with an loosely fitting hole and an iron disc allowing it to rotate.

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Thraw cruik. A rod of iron with a hook at the top, bent at a right angle and then another at the bottom. On the straight part of the rod below the hook is a hexagonal length of wood which fits loosely enough to rotate. A similar, but fixed piece of wood forms the handle at the bottom.
With pivoted handle.

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Shape: boot-like. Mount shape: rhomboid

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Decoration: star (top), dog-tooth design (sides).

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Shape: rectangular (rounded corners).

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Letter box. Rectangular box made of silver, with a border of dense punched lines on the lid.
Shape: rectangular. Lid decoration: punched border. Reputedly 'John Brown's letter box, used for Queen Victoria's mail at Balmoral.'

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Heckle. A large square wooden comb with a handle and iron pins pointing up from the body.
Heckle, with frame in wood and teeth in iron. Rectangular frame with extended handle. Used in dressing flax.

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