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Apparatus for determining g from the dynamics of a falling plate. With 4 tuning forks for timing.

Custom-made wooden box with brass coloured hindges containing an apparatus for levelling angles. Instrument is rectangular in shape with brass components with two view finders in top corners; pendulum-type gauge which measures "inclination per FOOT"…

Figure of an Apis Bull, disk and uraeus between horns, ring for suspension.

Brass aperture selector and 2 brass rings. Aperture selector is basically a small cylinder with a circular disk, with 8 holes in it, offset on top.

stone steatite

Amulet of the jackal-headed god Anubis

Figure of Anubis (with head of a jackal), standing.

Reindeer antler (Rangifer tarandus) from Moss of Cruden, Aberdeenshire.

anklet in ivory

Specimens for observing strain-induced anistropy in polarised llight. 3 wooden frames each inset with a anisotropic glass specimen of different shape; flower, circular, octagonal shapes.