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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.
Recruiting Poster
Recruiting poster for 29th Regiment.
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.
Red squirrel. Squirrel with reddish brown fur and a white belly, with long tufts on its ears. The squirrel hangs from a Perspex bar with its front legs.
Red Squirrel, on loan from Zoology Museum.
Regulations for the Mort house. A framed document titled Regulations for the management of the vault in the churchyard of Belhelvie. There is also a photograph of a low stone building next to a church in the frame, and the label Vault used to protect bodies from being removed by Resurrectionists.
Regulations for the management of the vault in the kirkyard of Belhelvie 28/01/1832.
Replica seal matrix. Two bronze moulds, one with a coat of arms with a tower on it and a lion on either side, the other with a bishop standing in a tower.
Replica of the matrix used for casting the Common Seal of Aberdeen City.
Inscription: Aberdeen City Common Seal
Inscription: Aberdeen City Common Seal
Rhynie chert. A large irregular block of grey stone polished smooth on one side. The face has numerous small round cavities each surrounded by a ring of darker stone, and irregular cave like cavities full of a cream coloured mineral.
Piece of Rhynie chert. Chert is a hard silica-rich rock. Rhynie chert, over 400-412 million years old) was first discovered by Dr William Mackie in 1912.