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Shovel Barn Shiel
Shovel or barn shiel, made from wood with a long handle and no hand hold. Used for moving grain.
Shovel Barn Shiel
Shovel, made from beech wood. It has a scooped blade for shovelling grain and a short handle with a looped hand-hold. Museum's Slip Catalogue: 'used on the Cowbog Farm, New Pitsligo, Aberdeenshire, from about 1900 to 1960'.
Shuttle
Wooden shuttle, bow-shaped.
Silver arrow. Arrow, about a foot long, in silver with a ring at the end. The fins of the arrow have an engraved crown and coat of arms on them.
Silver arrow. Prize formerly contended for by a Fraternity of Bowmen in Aberdeen.
Inscription: Engraved with: coat.of.arms of Earls.Marischal and L WK vicit anno 1769
Inscription: Engraved with: coat.of.arms of Earls.Marischal and L WK vicit anno 1769
Sinker
Ovoid stone, granite, with grooves longitudinally and around waist. Used as a weight or sinker for fishing nets.
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.
Skeleton Skull
Human skull. Male aged about 30 years, showing ante-mortem, depressed and comminuted fracture in left parieto-occipital region. One of two skulls found in floor of East Tower of Gatehouse, Old Kildrummy Castle, Aberdeenshire during…