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Mace head. A rounded rectangular block of black polished stone, with a perfectly circular hole about the size of a ten pence piece drilled through it near the centre.
Type: 'Thames pestle'
Terret. A bronze ring covered in a dark, smooth green patina. It has a small ring on one side. At the bottom of the main ring wide arms project from the sides and meet in the middle, curving up to a peg like projection.
Bronze ring: decoration : ridges.
Carved stone ball. Roughly the size of a tennis ball. Beige stone ball with four large, flat circular knobs equidistant from each other. Three of the knobs have different spiral and rose like designs cut on them.
Type: 9b (4 knobs), made of serpentine. Three of the knobs are finely carved, each with a different design. In the 19th century this ball was part of the collection of Aboyne Castle, Aberdeenshire.
Pin head. A bronze disc about two inches wide with a knob in the centre and concentric circular depressions.
Type: sunflower. Found in hoard with 2 socketed axes and neck-ring. Part of William Joyner's collection, donated by his great-granddaughter, comprising the Dingwall hoard and two other bronzes, probably of African origin.
Flanged Axe Axe Axehead
Flanged bronze axe head from the stone circle at Tamnaverie.
Spearhead. A large bronze socketed spearhead over a foot long. The blade is shaped like a long pointed leaf and is broken near the tip, revealing the socket which runs almost the length of the blade. The blade is also broken near the socket at the bottom, showing a length of wood inside.
Bronze spearhead, found in Loch Kinnord, Logie Coldstone, Aberdeenshire in 1874 by John Simpson, Meikle Kinnord. In three pieces. A portion of the oak handle remains in the socket.
Halberd. A wide flat triangular bronze point, about seven inches long, with a raised area along the centre and three small holes near the bottom.
Bronze halberd, with tapering midrib and three rivet holes. Part of a hoard of three halberds (see ABDUA 19678 and 19679) found in 1908 while making a bridge over a ditch on a farm. Found on subsoil under approximately 10ft of 'moss' (Reid 1912).
Axe head. A flat bronze axe head with an uneven surface and old labels stuck to it.
Flat axe, in bronze, with narrow butt and splayed blade. Found in 1830, purchased by J G Callander in 1907. Many paper labels stuck onto axe by earlier collectors.
Inscription: Old label: Stone axe found at Muchalls, 1830
Inscription: Old label: Stone axe found at Muchalls, 1830
Flanged Axe Axe Axehead
Bronze axe head , flanged. Found 'in a cairn'. Type: Auchterhouse Group, Class III (Coles 1963), Ulrome (Schmidt & Burgess 1981) but note that it is wrongly provenanced in S&B.
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…