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Bead
Colour: yellow and black, twisted together to form a spiral pattern. Type: North Scottish spiral-decorated bead (Guido 1978, Class 13; Ralston & Inglis 1984).
Bead
Colours: blue bead with yellow, white and red spirals. Shape: triangular. Type: North Scottish spiral-decorated bead (Guido 1978, Class 13). Ralston & Inglis (1984): 'Made by twisting different colours of glass together, and then marvering the…
Bead
Shape: egg-like. Was found on the Mains of Concraig near remains of a stone circle.
Bead
Shape: spherical. Colour: white. Found near the Vitrified Fort on the Tap o' Noth at Rhynie, Aberdeenshire by the owner of the land, who gave them to Mr Fraser.
Bead
Colours: green bead with yellow spiral. Shape: globular. Type: Meare spiral (Guido 1978, Class 10).
Red grouse. Two taxidermy red grouse, pigeon sized birds with mottled brown, black, white and gold plumage. The birds are hanging by their feet.
Stuffed bird, red grouse, on loan from Zoology Museum.
Carved stone ball. Roughly the size of a tennis ball. Brown stone ball, very round, with six large flat circular knobs equidistant from one another.
Type: 4a, 6 knobs, not very prominent.
Carved stone ball. Roughly the size of a tennis ball. Black, coarse stone ball with six large squarish knobs equidistant from one another.
Type: 4b, six knobs.
Book Document
Illustrated edition of Byron's poems.
Mace. A large silver ceremonial mace, almost a metre long, with a crown and cross at the top.
The mace of King's College made by Walter Melville of Aberdeen, 1650.