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GWW marischal
Image of Marischal College from George Washington Wilson collection.
Walking stick. A wooden stick almost a metre long with four segments. It has silver caps at both ends, the top one is bulbous. There is a small hole with silver mounts around it going through the stick near the top.
Cane walking stick with silver top. The top is inscribed to 'Geo. Turreff' and stamped with maker's initials (William Jamieson - died 1841). Museum's 'Slip Catalogue': 'George Turreff was appointed by the Aberdeen Town Council Dean of Guild's…
Lock Padlock
Padlock for pipe key, warded, and with bolt head decorations. Hinged flap to cover and protect key hole. Key missing. Used on condemned cell, Old Tolbooth, Aberdeen.
Deer trap. A long chunky piece of wood with a section hollowed out along the middle. In the hollow are pieces of wood, most prominently a curved pole with a hinge in the centre which runs the length of the hollow and is fastened down at either end by wooden pegs perpendicular to it.
Single valve 'otter trap' type, made from an alder trunk with trap of birch and the spring of willow. Found in a bog at Auquharney Moss, Cruden, Aberdeenshire. A radio-carbon date of the 6th century AD has been obtained for the trap (OxA-6052:…
Foundation charter. A large open manuscript book in Latin. The text is separated by illustrated headers where titles are written on banners being held aloft by hands emerging from clouds, or on panels bordered with floral forms.
Foundation charter of Marischal College, 1593.
Pulleys. Large wooden frame, about half a metre square, suspended from which are six brass pulleys and weight systems, ranging in complexity from a single pulley with a weight to six pulleys with a single weight.
Set of mechanical pulleys in mahogany frame.
Projectile point. A small pointed piece of black, lumpy corroded iron, about two inches long.
Shape: pyramidal.
Spearhead. A large iron spearhead almost a foot and a half long. The blade is an elongated diamond shape and it has a tapered socket taking up about a third of the length.
One of three iron spear heads, listed together in Reid (1912).
Harpoon head. A large flat iron point with barbs, with a long shaft ending in a wide socket. The harpoon head is about two feet long.
Type: double barbed.
Inscription: refer to file
Inscription: refer to file
Cairngorm gem. Polished black gem, about 9 inches tall, the shape of a hexagonal prism with a pointed top.
Cairngorm 'gem', a yellow-brown smoky quartz found in the Cairngorm mountain region.