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Capercaillie. A large bird with mottled grey and brown plumage, brown and white wings, and an iridescent bluish grey breast. It has a waxy red brow around each eye and a short, hooked beak. It stands on a mossy platform.
Stuffed bird, capercailzie, on loan from Zoology Museum.
Red squirrel. Squirrel with reddish brown fur and a white belly, with long tufts on its ears. The squirrel hangs from a Perspex bar with its front legs.
Red Squirrel, on loan from Zoology Museum.
Crossbills. Two taxidermy finch sized birds on Perspex perches. Both birds have large, curved beaks where the upper and lower parts cross over each other (like crossed fingers). The male has brown and orange plumage, the female brown and olive plumage.
Stuffed birds, female and male crossbill, on loan from Zoology Museum.
Solar pyrheliometer. A large instrument made of steel, brass and wood. Three small fan shaped steel plates which can be rotated are positioned over a long brass cylinder which extends from a squat wooden cylinder, suspended in a ring mount allowing the apparatus to be rotated in multiple directions.
Silver disk pyreheliometer for measuring the power in solar radiation. Instrument purchased from Smithsonian Institution who developed the device. Can be seen in use in the photograph of the total solar eclipse of 1927 taken on top of the Cromwell…
Moulding. Plaster figure of Christ on a block about five inches tall, broken at the mid torso. His face is turned to his right and his left hand is on his chest.
Plaster moulding of Christ from Monymusk Kirk.
Inscription: Box marked: MONYMUSK CHRIST
Inscription: Box marked: MONYMUSK CHRIST
Costrel. Fragment of a bronze bottle with the neck and part of the body which has thin horizontal grooves on it.
Brass costrel, or pilgrim's flask, from the Hospital of Kincardine o Neil. Decoration in the middle: chevron-pattern.
Spearhead. A bronze socketed spearhead about five inches long. The point is quite small, most of the length being taken up by the socket. There is a small loop on either side of the socket.
Bronze spearhead, socketed with side loops, leaf-shaped blade with tapering midrib.
Inscription: old paper label: C.24 ABDUA number and NEW written inside socket
Inscription: old paper label: C.24 ABDUA number and NEW written inside socket
Spearhead. A bronze socketed spearhead about six inches long. The point is large and wide, taking up half the length. There is a small loop on either side of the socket.
Bronze spearhead, socketed and with side loops, kite-like blade, tapering mid-rib and V-shaped ridge. Has a notch across the socket, possibly to aid hafting.
Carved stone ball. Roughly the size of a tennis ball. Dark grey, polished stone ball with 42 small round knobs.
Carved stone ball in greenstone, Type: 7 (with 42 small knobs).
Carved stone ball. Roughly the size of a tennis ball. Grey stone ball with six large, flat circular knobs equidistant from each other. Each knob has a fine grid pattern cut into it.
Type: 9c (cross hatched), incomplete. Originally had six large, well-defined, raised knobs about 5mm high carved on the surface, four adjacent knobs are decorated with incised cross-hatching.