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Halberd. A wide flat triangular bronze point, about seven inches long, with a raised area along the centre and three small holes near the bottom.
Bronze halberd, with tapering midrib and three rivet holes. Part of a hoard of three halberds (see ABDUA 19678 and 19679) found in 1908 while making a bridge over a ditch on a farm. Found on subsoil under approximately 10ft of 'moss' (Reid 1912).
Spearhead. A large bronze socketed spearhead over a foot long. The blade is shaped like a long pointed leaf and is broken near the tip, revealing the socket which runs almost the length of the blade. The blade is also broken near the socket at the bottom, showing a length of wood inside.
Bronze spearhead, found in Loch Kinnord, Logie Coldstone, Aberdeenshire in 1874 by John Simpson, Meikle Kinnord. In three pieces. A portion of the oak handle remains in the socket.
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Flanged bronze axe head from the stone circle at Tamnaverie.
Pin head. A bronze disc about two inches wide with a knob in the centre and concentric circular depressions.
Type: sunflower. Found in hoard with 2 socketed axes and neck-ring. Part of William Joyner's collection, donated by his great-granddaughter, comprising the Dingwall hoard and two other bronzes, probably of African origin.
Carved stone ball. Roughly the size of a tennis ball. Beige stone ball with four large, flat circular knobs equidistant from each other. Three of the knobs have different spiral and rose like designs cut on them.
Type: 9b (4 knobs), made of serpentine. Three of the knobs are finely carved, each with a different design. In the 19th century this ball was part of the collection of Aboyne Castle, Aberdeenshire.
Terret. A bronze ring covered in a dark, smooth green patina. It has a small ring on one side. At the bottom of the main ring wide arms project from the sides and meet in the middle, curving up to a peg like projection.
Bronze ring: decoration : ridges.
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'
Pot. A small earthenware bowl with fragments missing. Curved dotted lines decorate the surface.
Round based, decoration: alternate hatching. Was found in the Den of Craig (or near to) Auchindoir. Supposedly in a 'cist'.
Inscription: Old label: 32
Inscription: Old label: 32
Razor. A small bronze razor, roughly ellipse shaped with a handle and sharpened on both sides. Running up the centre is a raised area which is decorated with an engraved diamond pattern.
Bronze razor with tang. Decoration on midribs - hatched lozenge pattern (engraved). Found with clay urn and burnt bones in short stone cist.
Cup. A small earthenware cup. The base is about half the size of the opening, and the body flares out dramatically at the middle producing a hexagonal profile. The sides are decorated with incised lines making a pattern of rough diamonds, alternately filled with diagonal lines going one way and another.
Decorated with a rough diamond-like pattern, fine incised lines running in opposite directions, giving a basket-like or woven impression. Small hole pierced through the shoulder. This cup was found in a collared urn (ABDUA: 19742) by Leslie Mutch,…