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Skull. A plaster cast of a human skull on a square base.
Plaster cast of the skull of Robert the Bruce, on plaster base (slip catalogue notes c. 1274-1329)
Witch Stone Amulet
Stone, pierced at one end.
Inscription: handwritten in ink on the stone: Buchan 1882
Inscription: handwritten in ink on the stone: Buchan 1882
Wine bottle. A light green glass bottle with a boar's head and the letter E surrounded by a ring on the lower body.
Green glass bottle, long-necked, with seal on body of the bottle.
Inscription: seal: boar's head and letter E - for Elphinstone of Sanday
Inscription: seal: boar's head and letter E - for Elphinstone of Sanday
Floats. Two hollow glass balls, one dark green, the other light green. They are wrapped in dark brown netting.
Two glass balls in sisal net.
Coin Penny
Silver pennies, Edward II.
Charm Amulet
Smooth oval-shaped stone. Handwritten label on one side.
Inscription: Label: Charm Stone. Had been handed down in an Inverurie family as a Lucky Stone
Inscription: Label: Charm Stone. Had been handed down in an Inverurie family as a Lucky Stone
Hag stone. A large, elongated and unevenly shaped pebble with two holes running through one end. A cord is tied through one of the holes.
Sandstone, with natural perforations, used as a charm stone.
Double windmills. Two sets of four brass vanes on an axel with a leaf spring connected to it, on a brass and wooden stand. The vanes are facing the direction of rotation on one set and are twisted away from it on the other set.
Demonstration of air resistance. Double windmill each with 4 vanes : first set vanes fixed perpendicular to direction of motion; second set of vanes can be rotated individually around axis of support arm to give range of resistance from…
Thermometer. Small wooden frame, brass plate indicating Fahrenheit and Celsius, glass cylinder with red fluid.
Twentieth century thermometer.
Block. A small rectangular block of pink and black speckled granite polished extremely smooth.
Block of pink Peterhead granite.