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Two glass test-tubes filled with pieces of mosaic, mostly white and grey, stoppered with cottonwool and mounted on a card label: Inscription: Ancient Mosaic Tesserae Cumae'

Two glass test-tubes, filled with mosaic tesserae (in various shades of blue, red, yellow, green, black and white), stoppered with cottonwool, and mounted on a card label: 'Ancient Mosaic Tesserae Rome'. Inscription: Ancient Mosaic Tesserae Rome

Satirical Reform poster poking fun at Provost Hadden's expense account.

mounted on a wooden base. Originally drove two diameters of belt, but amateurishly modified by the addition of a rough propeller.

an electric motor with three step pulley wheel. The mechanism is open and mounted on a wood plinth. The stator is electrically energised and the rotor is connected via two brass commutator brushes

Seventy moulds, for amulets etc., in pottery, one in limestone. One of these is for making amulets of the god Bes, as shown in this photograph.

Mould for casting spindle whorls, matrix decoration: radial lines & dots. Found at in a dyke at Tarfat, Strichen, by Andrew Fentie.
Inscription: Old label: Amulet, Tarfat

Plaster moulding of Christ from Monymusk Kirk.
Inscription: Box marked: MONYMUSK CHRIST

piece of wood with 2 terminals, one at each end and a piece of wire between the two terminals

Long thin cone-shaped basket, woven from thin dried twigs, bound together at base with dried grasses and held together at intervals with strips of dried plant material. Used as a mousetrap. Piece of styrofoam inside.