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Battle-axe with steel blade, inlaid with brass, ornamented with gilded figure of a lion, handle in wood.

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One of two battle axes in steel, carved and inlaid with silver and brass. Handles in wood and bound with leather strap.

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ceremonial axe head, incised with a figure holding a mace/club/burning torch, two faint profiles on either side of figure's head

Axe head and chisel mould. A block of sandstone with axe head and bar shaped depressions on the sides.
Flat axe mould. Shape: tabular with 9 matrices (using all faces of the stone). Found while ploughing on the South face of Foudland Hill, Insch.

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Axe head. A dark polished stone axe head about ten centimetres long, one end pointed and the other sharpened.
Small axe in green stone, in perfect condition. Pointed butt, curved sides, a curved cutting edge and an oval cross-section, with the sides blunted.

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Axe head. A flat bronze axe head with an uneven surface and old labels stuck to it.
Flat axe, in bronze, with narrow butt and splayed blade. Found in 1830, purchased by J G Callander in 1907. Many paper labels stuck onto axe by earlier collectors.
Inscription: Old label: Stone axe found at Muchalls, 1830

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Axe head. A large axe head made of green jadeite, in a long rounded triangle shape, with a wooden haft.
Shape: round blade & narrow butt. Possibly an exotic import. Haft added in nineteenth or twentieth century.

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