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Barometer. Large barometer, about a metre tall, with a glass tube containing mercury. The wooden frame is elaborately carved at the top in a triangular shape with scrolls on the sides and a rose at the top. The body is covered with paper which has the instructions printed on and is decorated with gothic arches and trefoils.
Rectangular barometer, with thermometer and altimeter (broken). Display: column.
Inscription: Admiral Fitzroy's
Inscription: Admiral Fitzroy's
Barometer. A tall, cylindrical barometer painted black with rings for suspending it.
Ship's barometer, with thermometer, balluster type.
Inscription: Berry & Mackay Aberdeen
Inscription: Berry & Mackay Aberdeen
bark.cloth tapa
Book of South Pacific bark cloth reputedly collected by Captain Cook.
Barbed Wire
Barbed wire from the Western Front
Bannock stone. A large piece of brown stone, with a circular depression carved out of it. The base is flat allowing the stone to stand with the circular depression upright.
Bannock stane, a D-shaped and flattened piece of sandstone, for baking bannocks of oats, barley or peasemeal and scones. This stone comes from Sauchenbog, Kildrummy, Aberdeenshire.
Bannock spade
Bannock spade with a heart-shaped blade, used to turn bannocks, scones and oatcakes while cooking on an iron girdle or griddle.