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Witch Stone Amulet
Stone, pierced at one end.
Inscription: handwritten in ink on the stone: Buchan 1882
Inscription: handwritten in ink on the stone: Buchan 1882
Wine bottle. A light green glass bottle with a boar's head and the letter E surrounded by a ring on the lower body.
Green glass bottle, long-necked, with seal on body of the bottle.
Inscription: seal: boar's head and letter E - for Elphinstone of Sanday
Inscription: seal: boar's head and letter E - for Elphinstone of Sanday
Floats. Two hollow glass balls, one dark green, the other light green. They are wrapped in dark brown netting.
Two glass balls in sisal net.
Coin Penny
Silver pennies, Edward II.
Charm Amulet
Smooth oval-shaped stone. Handwritten label on one side.
Inscription: Label: Charm Stone. Had been handed down in an Inverurie family as a Lucky Stone
Inscription: Label: Charm Stone. Had been handed down in an Inverurie family as a Lucky Stone
Double windmills. Two sets of four brass vanes on an axel with a leaf spring connected to it, on a brass and wooden stand. The vanes are facing the direction of rotation on one set and are twisted away from it on the other set.
Demonstration of air resistance. Double windmill each with 4 vanes : first set vanes fixed perpendicular to direction of motion; second set of vanes can be rotated individually around axis of support arm to give range of resistance from…
Thermometer. Small wooden frame, brass plate indicating Fahrenheit and Celsius, glass cylinder with red fluid.
Twentieth century thermometer.
Block. A small rectangular block of pink and black speckled granite polished extremely smooth.
Block of pink Peterhead granite.
Ball. An extremely smooth polished ball of grey and black speckled granite, about the size of a softball.
Ball of grey Kemnay granite.
Skeleton
Skeleton from cist found at the Upper Mains of Catterline, Kinneff, Kincardine. Interment accompanied by a beaker and 'burnisher'. Cist had decorated cover slab as well as countersunk slab and possibly associated cup-marked boulder.