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Necklet. A large bronze ring about 9 inches wide. There is an open part of the ring, and the ends have flared out terminals. Around the outer edge are numerous short projections which are the remains of smaller rings; only one of these rings is complete.
Part of a hoard with sunflower-headed pin and two socketed axes. Similar to the neck-ring in the hoard found at Braes of Gight, near Haddo House. Part of William Joyner's collection, donated by his great-granddaughter, comprising the Dingwall hoard…
Flat Axe Head Axe Axe Head
Flat axe, in bronze (on right of picture), found in a scree slope at the Pass of Ballater along with ABDUA: 15653.
Flat Axe Head Axe Axe Head
Flat axe, in bronze (on left of picture). Blade shape: recurved (see Ralston 1984). Found in a scree slope at the Pass of Ballater along with ABDUA: 15654.
Carved Stone
Cup-marked stone (sandstone) found in heap of rubbish near the cist found at Catterline.
Cup. A small bowl like cup made of carved and polished black and brown speckled stone, with a blocky handle projecting horizontally from one side.
Extremely finely polished surface, triangular tab handle. Was once in the 'museum' at the Burn o' Vat, from where it was purchased by Dr Johnson. Found near, or within, one of the hut circles on Culblean Hill.
Axe head. A heavy, polished and blunt sandstone axe head with a large circular hole running vertically through the centre.
Sandstone axe head, found with cinerary urn.
Mace head. A small rounded rectangular slab of greenish stone with bands of darker and lighter colours. A perfectly circular hole about the size of a ten pence piece has been drilled near one end.
Flat, rectangular mace head, known as a ÔÇ£cushionÔÇØ type. Perforation is cylindrical. Green coloured stone, a hornfelsed phyllite from Killin, Perthshire. Findspot unknown.
Axe head. A block of polished grey stone with a canoe like profile, and a perfectly circular hole about the size of a two pence piece drilled vertically through the centre.
Described as a 'hammer' by Reid (1912).
Axe head. A large axe head made of green jadeite, in a long rounded triangle shape, with a wooden haft.
Shape: round blade & narrow butt. Possibly an exotic import. Haft added in nineteenth or twentieth century.
Cup. A small bowl like cup carved from a single piece of dark grey stone, with a blocky handle on one side.
Cup in steatite, with square tab handle.