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Shuttle
Wooden shuttle, bow-shaped.
Plaid. A folded pieced of cloth, green with vertical white, brown, blue and red bands and horizontal white and brown bands.
Woven on a narrow loom and joined down the middle. Predominant colour: green
Cheese thermometer. A pointed glass cylinder with mercury at the bottom and the numbers 0 to 240 in increments of ten marked up it. In red is marked Zero at 0 degrees, Freezing at 32 degrees, Churning at 62 degrees, Cheese at 85 degrees, Pasteurising at 152 degrees and Water Boil at 212 degrees.
Thermometer in cylindrical case.
Brogues. A pair of black leather shoes tooled with decorative dots and thistles.
Pair of shoes with thistle embossed on toes.
Glass bubbles. A set of twelve small glass bubbles each with a number engraved on them, in a circular wooden box lined with red fabric. The inside of the lid has a paper label which says GLASS BUBBLES, For proving spirits, Made by CAESAR ALTRIA, Mathematical Instrument Maker, ABERDEEN. A table with the numbers on the bubbles corresponding to strengths of alcohol is underneath.
Wooden case containing 12 glass beads. Made by Caesar Altria, c. 1860, Glass Blower/Mathematical Instrument Maker, Aberdeen 'for proving spirits'.
Bread Spade Bannock Spade
Bread or bannock spade, in iron. Blade has 'tear drop' shape cut out at centre.
Bullet mould. A tongs like device with half a spherical mould on the end of each arm, with a spherical lead bullet.
Bullet mould for making spherical bullets. Initials 'WD' on the handle. Old label: '465 1'.
Inscription: On handle: WD
Inscription: On handle: WD
Pendant Amulet
Rectangular piece of schist with rounded corners, two parallel lines incised around perimeter, a hole at two adjacent corners. Found underneath an urn 'at a depth of about an inch under the place where the urn had rested' at Seggiecrook,…
Bead
Bead / toggle, in bone, perforated bobbin shape. Found amongst cremated material in an urn at Seggiecrook, 13th March 1907. This bead is very similar to one found in an urn at mains of Carnousie (see ABDUA: 14787). The urn (ABDUA: 19729) was…
Pin Head (8)
Found amongst cremated human bone in an urn at Seggiecrook, Kennethmont, Aberdeenshire on 13th March 1907. Bead-like, in clay. Only 7 found June 1992.