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Paddle. The end of a wooden paddle, covered in numerous small cracks.
Paddle, from lake dwelling, Loch Kinnord.
Sweir kitty. A wooden apparatus about a foot wide consisting of turned wooden rods. The base has two rods in a T shape, from the opposite ends of which project two more rods perpendicularly. Between these rods is a metal rod on to which is threaded two wooden spindles.
Yarn winder, or swier-kitty, with frame in wood and spindles in iron. Type: double-reeled. Shape: turned. Decoration: concentric bands (incised).
Gartane leem. An open wooden box about the size of a shoebox, with a panel with a row of alternating long vertical gaps and holes projecting upwards from inside. On one end of the box is a crank which turns a bobbin wound with thread.
Gartane-leem with drawer, in wood. A small portable loom for weaving garters and cradle strings.
Carding combs. Two large rectangular wooden combs with handles. A large number of small iron pins, bent slightly in the middle, project from the bodies of the combs.
A pair of carding combs, with backs in wood and teeth in iron wire, fixed in leather.
Netting needle. A long, flat piece of wood with a round point and a rectangular hole near the point which has a tongue of wood projecting across it.
Wooden (beech wood) netting needle, central spike broken, for mending fishing nets.
Touting horn. A small brown horn with a plain cord. The horn is decorated with incised knotwork patterns.
Hunting or 'touting' horn, made from an ox horn and inscribed with a design of interlace and entwined concentric circles. Dates from later 17th century. When this object was donated the donor said it once was in the collection of George Davidson. …
Froe stick. A wooden stick with a flat cross at the top, around which is wrapped twisted hair.
Froe stick, or milk whisk, used for whipping cream at Hallowe'en. Small wooden cross on a shaft, with the cross wrapped round with a halo of twisted hair from a cow's tail.
Distaff and spindle. A wooden staff almost a metre long. Hanging from the staff by a length of string is a small wooden rod with a fat stone ring on it.
Wooden distaff and spindle, claystone whorl. Whorl decoration: concentric circles (incised).
Touting horn. A large horn with a dull red, white and blue cord. The horn is inscribed with numerous names, initials and dates in different styles. Most prominent is the inscription CoLeNsT INDeL 1752, IA MeS BOWMAN 1752, inscribed with rope like writing. Other inscriptions include AD and W.V DF 1750.
A large hunting or 'touting' horn made from an ox horn, with a mouthpiece carved at the point. Eighteenth-century, decorated with incised names, initials and dates, inluding 1707 and 1752. Some of the lettering is in a cross-hatched, rope-like…
Goffering iron. A small torpedo shaped piece of iron at the end of a long rod with a wooden handle, next to a similarly shaped but hollow piece of iron on a stand.
A goffering iron, made of brass and iron. Resembles a poker.
Inscription: refer to file
Inscription: refer to file