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incised mirror-case, goose & double-disc
symbol.stone Pictish.stone
Type: Class 1. Front: double-disc & Z-rod Back: flower & mirror & comb
symbol.stone Pictish.stone
Type: Class 1 double-disc & Z-rod
Symbol stone. A roughly rectangular slab of beige sandstone about two feet high and almost one and a half feet wide, broken at the top and bottom. Carved on the stone in simple outlines is a dog like beast with a long, curved muzzle, a mirror with a handle, a comb, and a rectangular area divided into three columns the outer two of which have a pattern of zig zagging ovals.
Pictish stone with following symbols: Pictish.beast & mirror & comb & decorated.rectangle , type: class 1.
Sword. Steel blade, about a foot and a quarter long, with a wide groove near running up it from the hilt. It has a wooden handle with brass rivets, pommel, and a looped hand guard with a panel decorated with a hunting scene.
Sword with fluted blade in steel. Hilt in wood, studded and mounted in brass, brass pommel and guard decorated with hunting scenes. The museum's Slip Catalogue notes: 'Dirk and sword belonged to Michael Dunbar, notorious cateran (robber) who lived…
Sword. Almost a metre long steel sword, the blade has two grooves along its length, the handle is surrounded by a basket of steel loops with decorative punched hearts, and red cushioning inside.
Highland broadsword (A434+5b) and silver-plated cross-guard (A434+5a), used by Lachlan Forbes when Regimental Adjutant, 1st Volunteer Battalion Gordon Highlanders.
Sword. A steel sword with a basket hilt decorated with punched hearts and dots, and cushioned with red felt. The blade is inscribed and decorated with scrolls, foliage and a depiction of St. Andrew.
Sword, double-edged, Basket hilt constructed of round bars, junction plates pierced with 'key' pattern and incised with lines bordering the junction plate. Quillon with scrolled terminal. Flat domed pommel with four grooves forming a cross, the…
Sword stick. A hollow knobbly wooden stick almost a metre long, next to a steel sword blade with a similar wooden handle.
An Exciseman's sword stick, in holly wood. Blade: fluted & single edged.
sword hunting.sword knife
Dress sword, deer horn hilt, leather scabbard. Scabbard also holds knife with deer horn handle and mountings in gilded brass. Type: couteau de chasse. Reid (1912): 'Sword belonged to Campbell of Glencoe, the perpetrator of the Massacre of Glencoe.…
Sword Basket Hilt
Sword, double-edged, basket-hilted, constructed of round bars with large 'S' and fleurs-de-lis in rear compartments. Thick junction plates with serrated edges. Carved upper ends of branches where they fit into grooves of pommel. Pommel of low conical…