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Haims. Two large curved pieces of wood joined by a chain at one end and a leather belt at the other. Each wooden pieces has a metal plate screwed to its outer surfaces and a leather pad with a metal hook.
Yoke (collar or hamins or hems) for an ox or horse. Bought at Glens of Foundland, Wells of Ythan.
Sword
Leaf-shaped sword, point imperfect, in bronze. Said to have been found in 1809 'under deep moss' on the estate of Balnagubs, Kincardineshire, in line between Roman camps of Raedykes and Drumoak, but may be a nineteenth-century copy of a Bronze Age…
Map Document
Tourist guide folds out to become large map 'Scotland's Castle Trail' produced in 2003.
Axe head. A large oblong piece of dark brown polished stone with orange speckles. The stone is wider and sharpened at one end.
Type: splayed & round butt
Cup. A small bowl like cup carved from a single piece of dark grey stone, with a blocky handle on one side.
Cup in steatite, with square tab handle.
Axe head. A large axe head made of green jadeite, in a long rounded triangle shape, with a wooden haft.
Shape: round blade & narrow butt. Possibly an exotic import. Haft added in nineteenth or twentieth century.
Axe head. A block of polished grey stone with a canoe like profile, and a perfectly circular hole about the size of a two pence piece drilled vertically through the centre.
Described as a 'hammer' by Reid (1912).
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.
Axe head. A heavy, polished and blunt sandstone axe head with a large circular hole running vertically through the centre.
Sandstone axe head, found with cinerary urn.
Cup. A small bowl like cup made of carved and polished black and brown speckled stone, with a blocky handle projecting horizontally from one side.
Extremely finely polished surface, triangular tab handle. Was once in the 'museum' at the Burn o' Vat, from where it was purchased by Dr Johnson. Found near, or within, one of the hut circles on Culblean Hill.