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Collar like. Museum's 'Slip Catalogue': 'used as a form of punishment, and were attached to Church doors, Churchyard gates, or Market Cross'.
Spear point. An orange flint spear point about 9 centimetres long, roughly oval shaped.
Flint tool, a large laurel leaf point made in grey-brown flint, shaped by pressure flaking, with some shallow invasive retouch to sharpen the edges. More pointed at one end, but that tip has been either broken or removed. The end has then been…
Knife
Large knife made on a flake of black volcanic rock, perhaps pitchstone. It has a keeled back, and has been ground over the whole surface, with extra polishing/grinding to sharpen blade down one side. Parallel grooves visible on blade - maybe use…
Sinker
Ovoid stone, granite, with grooves longitudinally and around waist. Used as a weight or sinker for fishing nets.
Pipe. An ornate pipe, consisting of a white cup gripped by a hand with a shirt cuff joined on to the handle. The cup is labelled Presented by Queen Victoria to Her Commissioner Dr. Profeit at Balmoral. The pipe has a black leather case lined with green silk.
Pipe made in meerschaum in the shape of a hand holding an egg. The white egg forms the bowl of the pipe and the arm and wrist (honey-coloured meerschaum), the stem is made of amber. The handwritten label reads ' Presented by Queen Victoria to her…
Pipe
One of a group of 13 clay 'dregy' pipes, used at funerals. Six with trade marks. Bowl decoration, at the top: incised lines.
Pipe
Clay pipe, bowl decoration: portraits of King Edward 7 and Queen Alexandra.
