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Naphtha lamp. A small metal lamp with a conical base. The body of the lamp is cylindrical and has a handle made of plate with a hole punched in it, a lid with a handle, a spout pointing diagonally upwards and a tray underneath the spout.
Conical base, with cylindrical top, loop for suspension.
Pike head. A large flat iron point with two curved points projecting from the bottom, on a wide iron socket.
Erroneously desribed as 'halberd' in Reid (1912).
Man trap. An iron trap with sharp teeth on hinged brackets which are snapped shut by a leaf spring. The leaf spring has part of a chain at one end.
Man trap, in iron, nineteenth century, type: gin trap. Would have been set, hidden in undergrowth, to deter and catch poachers. The jaws are set open by the shank of metal, and when the trap is sprung, by stepping on it, the toothed jaws snap…
Cruik. A piece of iron about a foot long, with a wide flat hook on one end a small pointed hook on the other from which it hangs on a chain of large flat iron rings.
Links shape: round, flat.
Inscription: XXX
Inscription: XXX
Gag. Two L shaped iron bars hinged onto a third bar which has a screw in it.
Mouth gag in iron.
Stob Spade
Stob-spade in wood, two pronged flat spade. Used for inserting straw in thatching.
Inscription: D
Inscription: D
Thatch Dart Thack Dairt
type: five pronged, flat spade.
Stob Thatcher
Type: two pronged.
Snuff mull. A an oval shaped silver box set between the horns of a ram. The box has a thistle engraved on it and the initials PW.
Made from ram's horns and silver. Engraved with a thistle and letters P W.
Inscription: P W thistle
Inscription: P W thistle
Panel. A small rectangular wooden panel carved with foliage and scrolls. In the centre, inside a ring, are the letters C, L and A entwined and B.
Initials carved on central medallion: CLA CL AB. Decoration: flower, leaf and scroll decorations around central medallion.
Inscription: CLA CL AB
Inscription: CLA CL AB