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Four stones with natural holes through them, one beige and rectangular, two orange and grey, and a large grey stone with a cord through the hole.

Tags: Case 46

Four men with large bellies, large eyes and protruding lower lips carry full sacks into an office and say Mr Mayor, we have brought great quantities of corn to market and no body will buy, we request your advice what to do with it. The mayor, a smug looking figure in a red and gold coat, replies Do with it? why, as you have done, Keep it!! His assistant holds up a paper saying Ordered the price of bread to be lowered one half tomorrow. Out the window can be seen a cart piled with sacks labelled To go back no purchasers and a labourer saying Dang it, if I did not think it would come to this at last.

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four armed needle wheel

a brass axle with four needles attached to the centre in a swastika shape

Foundation charter. A large open manuscript book in Latin. The text is separated by illustrated headers where titles are written on banners being held aloft by hands emerging from clouds, or on panels bordered with floral forms.

Foundation charter. A large open manuscript book in Latin. The first page of the charter, which has the title Novae Academiae Aberdonensis, Per Comitem Mariscallum, authoritate Regia, erectio & institutio, written on a banner being held aloft by hands emerging from clouds.

Foundation charter of Marischal College, 1593.

Tags: Case 24

Foucault's pendulum

Spherical pendulum bob with pointer. Support attachment made in 1993.

Fossil. A round piece of rock with the imprint of a fish, viewed top down, with a wing like fin extending from each side near the head.

Fossil of Pterichthyodes milleri, from Lethen Bar - an armoured bottom-dwelling fish.

Tags: Case 16

Fossil. A long piece of rock with the imprint of a fish on it, viewed from the side, including bones and scales.

Fossil of an Osteolepid fish from Tynet Burn near Fochabers - probably browsed on vegetation and small worms.

Tags: Case 16

Fossil. A large piece of rock, about a foot and a half long, with polished, olive coloured, square scales on its surface. The scales are roughly two inches wide.

Fossilised scales of Stagonolepis robertsoni, a mammal-like reptile, from near Elgin.

Tags: Case 12

Three-pronged fork, the end of the handle engraved with floral designs (foliate and lily-like). On the back of the handle are initials and date. Part of a knife and fork set presented to Marischal College in 1802 by John Leslie, Goldsmith, but made…