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bodkin
Ivory bodkin, 3 holes in broad end. Hunt (1982) quotes Wilson's journals: 'a bodkin of an Athenian lady'.
board shield
Wooden board, carved in relief and painted in red and black, motif: scroll patterns and stylised human heads.
Block. A small rectangular block of pink and black speckled granite polished extremely smooth.
Block of pink Peterhead granite.
Block iron. A rounded triangular box metal box with a wooden handle and a hatch on the back, next to a similarly shaped solid block of rusty iron which fits inside.
Block iron with wooden handle, maker's mark on block. One of a number of items donated by Mrs Argo of Aberdeen, some of which were used on the farm of Darnabo, near Fyvie, Aberdeenshire.
Inscription: C3 [...] FALKIRK
Inscription: C3 [...] FALKIRK
blanket
Chilkat blanket woven from mountain-goat wool and yellow-cedar bark Tsimshian style, British Columbia The yarns were died black, yellow and green by boiling in solutions of urine, hemlock, copper and certain species of lichen, and were woven into…
blade
Long thin obsidian blade. One of a collection of 34 obsidian articles: 11 arrow/javelin heads, 12 knives, 6 cores, 5 scrapers. Found in many parts of Mexico in the neighbourhood of volcanoes.