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Shale pipe, carved with human and animal figures, latticed window in centre.

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Panel pipes carved out of argillite, a dark slate, comparatively soft when mined which hardens after exposure to the air Haida style, Queen Charlotte Islands, British Columbia Made for sale to Europeans, most of the pipes illustrate sailors of the…

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Clay pipe, name stamped on bowl, see inscription Received from King's College Library, probably from Dr W Douglas Simpson, Librarian

Pin. A pin made of bone, about three inches long. A small thistle is carved on one end.
Thistle-headed bone pin. Decoration on thistle head: cross-hatching.

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Pin heads. Three small, roughly cylindrical objects made of orange ceramic with holes running through the centre.
Excavated from an eroding bank behind steading at NJ943547. The pin heads were among a cremated deposit of human bone. Shape: barrel-shaped (only 3 on display May 1992). A similar pin head was found accompanying the cremation deposit at…

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Pin heads. Six ball shaped black objects, smooth and glossy with some cracks, and holes on the bottoms, which are slightly flattened. They are about the size of a large marble.
Nine globular pin-heads, in shale. One with part of an iron pin. One of the pin-heads appears to be a nut or gall. Six pin-heads are on display (December 2001). Found when trenching land on Hill of Crichie, Aberdeenshire (February 1856) along…

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Pin head. A bronze disc about two inches wide with a knob in the centre and concentric circular depressions.
Type: sunflower. Found in hoard with 2 socketed axes and neck-ring. Part of William Joyner's collection, donated by his great-granddaughter, comprising the Dingwall hoard and two other bronzes, probably of African origin.

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Found amongst cremated human bone in an urn at Seggiecrook, Kennethmont, Aberdeenshire on 13th March 1907. Bead-like, in clay. Only 7 found June 1992.

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Pin cushion. Small white rectangular cushion with blue tassels at each corner. Printed in blue ink and arranged in concentric circles are a large number of names. In the centre is a rose with the inscription MART : FOR : KING : & : COU : 1746 around it.
Pin cushion in cream satin with a blue silk tassle in each corner. Printed in the centre is a Jacobite rose, and the words 'MART FOR K & COU: 1746', and around this are printed the names of those who died in the 1745 rebellion.
Inscription: MART FOR…

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