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Panel. A small rectangular wooden panel carved with foliage and scrolls. In the centre, inside a ring, are the letters C, L and A entwined and B.
Initials carved on central medallion: CLA CL AB. Decoration: flower, leaf and scroll decorations around central medallion.
Inscription: CLA CL AB
Inscription: CLA CL AB
Panel. A wooden panel about twenty centimetres wide, carved with the face of a horned devil with pointy ears and teeth, with flowers and stems on either side.
Oak panel, carved, from the gallery in the north aisle of St Nicholas' Church, Aberdeen. Carved decoration: grotesque face with horns and pointed teeth, between two ravens, surrounded by leaves and two flowers.
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,…
Pendant amulet. A small, flat rounded rectangular piece of beige stone with a circular hole drilled in one end.
Perforated. Was found at Drumdurno Farm, Pittodrie, Pitcaple, Chapel of Garioch, Aberdeenshire.
Penny. A small silver coin with a crude profile of a man wearing a crown on one side, and a cross and stars on the other.
Silver coin, penny. Obv: head of king to l., crowned. Rev: Long cross pommee with star in each angle.
Inscription: Obv: ALEX [ ] Rev: IO [N] O [N] AB
Inscription: Obv: ALEX [ ] Rev: IO [N] O [N] AB
Penny. A small silver coin with a portrait of a man wearing a crown on one side, and a cross with three circles between each arm on the other. The edges of the coin are chipped and cracked.
Coin, penny. Obv: Bust of king, facing, crowned. Rev: Long cross pattee with three pellets in each angle.
Inscription: Obv: IACOBVS [ .DI.GRA.REX. ] REV: [ VILLA.ABERDON ]
Inscription: Obv: IACOBVS [ .DI.GRA.REX. ] REV: [ VILLA.ABERDON ]
Pepper mill. Dark wooden cylinder with turned bands, with a knob at the top.
Wooden mill, used for grinding pepper.
Perforated Stone
Stone from above cist with central countersunk perforation, not symmetrical, possible groove (ring-mark?) around part of circumference of hole on one side. Was found at the Upper Mains of Catterline, Kinneff, Kincardine.
Photograph of Edward VII. A large bearded white man wearing a black cap, tartan jacket and waistcoat, a shirt and tie, a tartan kilt with a small swastika on it, a sporran, stockings and shiny black leather shoes, holding a walking stick.
Black and white photograph of King Edward VII, kilted, with walking stick. Inscription in pencil on back. Mounted in cream cardboard, unglazed.
Inscription: His late Majesty King Edward VII
Inscription: His late Majesty King Edward VII
