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Heckle Heckle Comb
Heckle, for dressing flax, with a wooden handle, heart-shaped iron tang and long, slightly curved iron teeth, set at a right angle to the handle (one tooth missing).
Heckle. A large square wooden comb with a handle and iron pins pointing up from the body.
Heckle, with frame in wood and teeth in iron. Rectangular frame with extended handle. Used in dressing flax.
helmet
Shirt and helmet of chain armour - The armour and weapons of West African kingdoms and Sudanic states were very like those used during the Middle Ages and provided little protection from the rifles and machine guns of the colonial powers. The cluster…
helmet
Helmet, composed of chain armour and decorated with leather bands. One of two collected from Central Sudan and listed together in the museum's slip catalogue.
helmet armour
Collected during the Lhasa Expedition 1903/4.
Hemlock
Several fruits. Label in box: 'Conii Fruct. POISON. The British Drug Houses, Ltd. Manufacturing Chemists. London.'
Heraldic panel. A large square dark wooden panel, about a metre wide, carved with a coat of arms containing a lion, held aloft by two chained unicorns with crowns around their necks. Above the coat of arms is a knight's helmet with a crown, and a lion holding a sword and flag on top. The background is filled with oak leaves.
Plaque, heraldic panel, with the arms of James V and initials of William Rolland, moneyer in Aberdeen.
Inscription: IN MY DEFENS VR
Inscription: IN MY DEFENS VR