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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,…
Axe head. A dark polished stone axe head about ten centimetres long, one end pointed and the other sharpened.
Small axe in green stone, in perfect condition. Pointed butt, curved sides, a curved cutting edge and an oval cross-section, with the sides blunted.
Arrowhead. A small orange, leaf shaped flint arrowhead with part of a wooden shaft. The arrowhead is fitted into a slit on the tip of the shaft.
Leaf-shaped flint arrowhead, part of wooden haft survives.
Socketed Axe Head Axe Axe Head Snuff Mull
Socketed axe head, decoration: Ridge (cast). Type: Rectangular (Coles), Portree [variant Kalemouth] (S&B). This axe has been made into a snuff box sometime in the 19th century (probably by the finder). Inscription engraved on lid.
Inscription: On…
Inscription: On…
Ceramic beaker. A pot which slightly flares out at the middle, before narrowing at the neck and flaring out toward the rim. It is decorated with incised vertical and horizontal lines, cross hatching and large triangles pointing upward containing lines and cross hatching.
Final Northern type, of medium size with very short neck. Burnished red exterior, body decorated symmetrically above and below a plain band around the belly with a pattern of cross-hatching which supports triangles, in-filled alternately with…