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Linen. A folded sheet of white linen cloth.
Linen given to Major General James Ferguson of Balnakilly and Kinmundy, Colonel of the Cameronian Regiment, 1698-1705, from a suit/set of linen given to him after Blenheim. Finely woven white linen. Border: crossed guns, flags, pikes, drums etc.…
Littlejohn of Invercharron Challenge Vase. A large silver trophy decorated with foliage, lions and the heads of bearded men.
Large silver cup given by Alexander Littlejohn to be used as a trophy or 'challenge vase' for an annual shinty competition among Scottish universities, and known as the 'Littlejohn of Invercharron Challenge Vase'. The cup is a copy, in silver, of…
Lock Padlock
Padlock for pipe key, warded, and with bolt head decorations. Hinged flap to cover and protect key hole. Key missing. Used on condemned cell, Old Tolbooth, Aberdeen.
Log gripper. A wide, flat U shaped piece of iron with spikes on the underside and a leather strap over the top.
Foot log gripper used on the River Dee, Aberdeenshire c. 1800, found during demolition of a house on Guestrow, Aberdeen, 1932. Has four spikes.
Lousin knife. A brown leather wrist guard which has a small knife attached to it.
Short-bladed binding knife, with leather wrist strap.
Inscription: Knife blade engraved : TAYLOR SHEFFIELD ENGLAND
Inscription: Knife blade engraved : TAYLOR SHEFFIELD ENGLAND
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
Mace head. A rounded rectangular block of black polished stone, with a perfectly circular hole about the size of a ten pence piece drilled through it near the centre.
Type: 'Thames pestle'
Mace head. A small rounded rectangular slab of greenish stone with bands of darker and lighter colours. A perfectly circular hole about the size of a ten pence piece has been drilled near one end.
Flat, rectangular mace head, known as a ÔÇ£cushionÔÇØ type. Perforation is cylindrical. Green coloured stone, a hornfelsed phyllite from Killin, Perthshire. Findspot unknown.
Mace. A large silver ceremonial mace, almost a metre long, with a crown and cross at the top.
The mace of King's College made by Walter Melville of Aberdeen, 1650.