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Roof boss. A large, round piece of beige sandstone with six roughly cylindrical elements meeting in a cross on the underside. On the upper, round side of the stone is carved two lizard like monsters, each biting the other's tail.
Two beasts snapping at each others tail, carved in local sandstone. 6 rib vault boss originally part of the 15th-century work of Elgin Cathederal. This sculpture and ABDUA 17827 were recovered from the ruins and kept at Montcoffer House,…
Roofing Lead
Piece of roofing lead from Coull Castle. Part of a collection of 'medieval relics from Coull Castle'.
Rope
Type: four plait.
Rope
Single ply, wound into a tight skein.
Rotary quern. Two fat discs of coarse grey stone almost half a metre wide, the upper disc having a hole in the centre around which is carved a raised ring. Carved grooves radiate from the centre.
Upper stone decoration: radial grooves.
Saddle quern. A large oblong lump of dark granite, about half a metre long, with a deep carved oblong depression along the middle.
Saddle quern in granite.
Scales Weight Set
Set of scales, with brass pans and brass weights, in a wooden box. Used by Rev Alexander John Forsyth for weighing the ingredients used to make a detonating powder in 1805-6. Forsyth invented the percussion lock for fire arms, and his experiments…
Scientific paper. A book open on a page with an illustration of the dynamical top and diagrams of circles, a sphere and cube with concentric lines. Opposite is a page of text explaining the dynamical top.
Journal of the Royal Society - showing an illustration of dynamical top.
