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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.
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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…
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 dotted vertical, horizontal and zig zag lines.
A Developed Northern beaker, fairly small with comb-impressed decoration in undulating bands around the belly, waist and rim. The motifs include lines of dots, zig-zags, herringbone and metopes. Found just to the south of the steading at Westside…
Sculpture Carving Gargoyle
Carved sandstone boss probably from the medieval cathedral at Elgin.
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 dotted vertical, horizontal and chevron lines.
Beaker, found at Auchrynie, Fetterangus, in a cist accompanying a young male. Typical Final Northern beaker, sinuous profile, short everted neck. Three broad bands of comb-impressed decoration cover the exterior, with herringbone, and broad bands…
Beaker. A small earthen ware pot. The base is about half the size of the opening and the body flares out in the middle before contracting again. Decorated with incised bands of horizontal lines and a band of vertical and zig zag lines near the rim.
Late Northern beaker, found at Pittodrie, Chapel of Garioch, Aberdeenshire, in a cist with another beaker (ABDUA: 19708). Decorated with four bands of horizontal lines around the lower body, belly, neck and rim, with plain zones between them. A…
Beaker. A small earthenware cup, with three incised horizontal lines below the rim and two rows of diamonds filled with vertical lines on the body.
Incised decoration: on body - lozenges & vertical lines; on rim - 3 bands; on base - 3 bands. Found in a short stone cist, with a mass of brown fibrous material and incomplete skeleton, ABDUA: 14232. Cist was found in gravel bank on the farm of…
Carved stone ball. Roughly the size of a tennis ball. Black, polished stone ball with four large flat circular knobs arranged equidistant from each other. The knobs have a finely cut grid pattern and each square is rounded to produce tiny squarish knobs. The spaces between the large knobs are cut with lines that flow around the knobs.
Type: 9c, 4 knobs, made of serpentine. Four large, dome-shaped knobs and is finely decorated all over. Each knob is cross-hatched, carefully incised to make tiny cubes between the incised lines. The spaces between the knobs are decorated with fine…