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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…
Mariner's ticket and box. A paper form printed with blue ink and filled in by hand with black ink, listing identifying details of the bearer such as name, height, complexion, eye and hair colour, and signed by the bearer and officials. Also a small wooden box to store the ticket which is inscribed Robt. Mason Sketrow and decorated with a row of incised saltires.
Wooden box, contains Mariner's ticket.
Inscription: Box: V A 1844 Ticket: No132377 Robert Masson of Sketrow
Inscription: Box: V A 1844 Ticket: No132377 Robert Masson of Sketrow
Directory
Telephone directory for Aberdeen - Yellow Pages.
Christening robe. Puffy, short sleeves, decorated all over the front with lace.
Christening-robe, 175 years old, exquisite lace and delicately hand-sewn on fine lawn. Worn by Alexander Elder, and a member of the Anton family (given by Mrs Catherine Levie, Anton being her previous married name).
Arrow Arrow Head
Flint arrowhead, type: single-barbed / British oblique f.
Inscription: written in ink on one face: Benachie
Inscription: written in ink on one face: Benachie
Arrow Arrow Head
Flint arrowhead. Type: barbed and tanged / Kilmarnock n.
Still Pot Head Still
Still pot head, with two tubes or horns, one in copper and one in iron. 'Used by whisky smugglers'.
Crosscut saw. A large saw about half a metre long.
Nineteenth century crosscut saw, from Aberdeenshire.
Inscription: Old label: 571
Inscription: Old label: 571
Adze. An adze with a wide, flat rusty iron head and a wooden handle.
Hand adze, perhaps used by coopers to strip bark off trees. One of a number of items (eg ABDUA 15895 to 15915) donated by Mrs Argo of Aberdeen, some of which were used on the farm of Darnabo, near Fyvie, Aberdeenshire. Most of the items date to…