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Curracks. A large wooden frame about a foot and a half wide and tall. The frame is L shaped with bars across it. The sides of the horizontal part curve upwards toward the tips, and the bar across the top of the vertical part has a loop of rope attached.
Pair of wooden currachs, used as panniers for carrying fuel etc.
Inscription: stamped I. P.
Inscription: stamped I. P.
Yarnet. A rectangular wooden box about a foot and a half lonf with a handle.
Wooden 'yarnet' - used in holding yarn to be made into skeins or wound into balls.
Dibbler. A wooden bar about half a metre long with three fat pegs projecting from it. Projecting from the other side are two rods attached to a bar with handles.
Three drill dibbler. used for planting seed.
Tuskar. A spade with a long, rounded rectangular iron blade and a wooden handle. The blade has a flattened spike or wing projecting from it perpendicularly on the end on one side.
Peat spade (or tuskar) with broad, round-ended blade and short wing that is typical of Aberdeenshire. The spade might be used vertically or horizontally, according to the type of peat bed. The end of the spade and the wing are made from a single…
Shovel Barn Shiel
Shovel or barn shiel, made from wood with a long handle and no hand hold. Used for moving grain.
Cradle. Wooden cradle, with curved supports allowing it to rock.
Pine cradle, sides decorated with painted scroll work. Was made by Mr William Barron, Mintlaw, Aberdeenshire, about 1860 - 1880. Has knobs for attaching cord to enable cradle to be rocked by foot. One of a number of items (eg ABDUA 15895 to…
Rotary quern. Two fat discs of coarse grey stone almost half a metre wide, the upper disc having a hole in the centre around which is carved a raised ring. Carved grooves radiate from the centre.
Upper stone decoration: radial grooves.
Bannock stone. A large piece of brown stone, with a circular depression carved out of it. The base is flat allowing the stone to stand with the circular depression upright.
Bannock stane, a D-shaped and flattened piece of sandstone, for baking bannocks of oats, barley or peasemeal and scones. This stone comes from Sauchenbog, Kildrummy, Aberdeenshire.
Roof boss. A large, round piece of beige sandstone with six roughly cylindrical elements meeting in a cross on the underside. On the upper, round side of the stone is carved two lizard like monsters, each biting the other's tail.
Two beasts snapping at each others tail, carved in local sandstone. 6 rib vault boss originally part of the 15th-century work of Elgin Cathederal. This sculpture and ABDUA 17827 were recovered from the ruins and kept at Montcoffer House,…