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  • Collection: Encyclopaedia of the North East

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

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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,…

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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…

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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.

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5 flint flakes, burned. One is a probable thumbnail scraper. Found in 1904 among the cremated bones in an urn at the farm of Seggiecrook. Museum's 'Slip Catalogue' records 6 flints, one is now missing.

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Set of steel lancets, set into horn handles, with a brass container. Used by the Reverend Alexander John Forsyth LLD (1768-1843) for vaccinations against smallpox in the parish of Belhelvie.

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Miniature bronze cauldron. Decorated with beaded carination.

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Arrowhead. An iron arrowhead with part of a wooden shaft. The arrowhead has a socket which fits over the shaft.
From a collection of items from Coull Castle. Museum's Slip Catalogue: 'medieval relics from Coull Castle. Was found in the South door of domestic range.'

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Oval communion token with inscription on both sides.
Inscription: W. M. MINR. PARISH OF KENNETHMONT 1854 | THIS DO IN REMEMBRANCE OF ME

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Silver coin, penny. Obv: head of king to r., crowned. Rev: Long cross pommee with star in each angle.
Inscription: Obv: ALEXANDER.REX. Rev: RAI NIL DOI ABE
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