Fragment of a relief carving in schist representing a bride in wedding cart drawn by lions, the young Bodhisattva in front.Inscription: Old label in red ink: 12 Old label in black ink: 20

Bowl in red Samian ware.Inscription: old label on side, handwritten in ink: Roman bowl of red Samian Ware 3rd Century Lord Hastings Collection and printed label on opposite side: 622 2 and in pencil on base: 622 5 ?

Bundle of about 8 bolts for a crossbow, tied up with string, old hand-written label.

Wooden sword with two rows of sharks teeth mounted along the edges (one row along each edge). Plaited vegetable fibre through the handle.

Fragment of a bronze bracelet.

One of four baskets, 'one in cloves, three in grass'. This one is light-coloured and has a lid. Given to Thomson by 'Ar. F' (probably his brother-in-law Arthur Fraser who was a merchant in Java)

Shield in angled wood decorated with hair.

Presented to Alexander Thomson Esq of Banchory, by the Highland and Agricultural Society of Scotland, for a report on the cultivation of chicory and flax in Belgium, 1837. Inscription: SEMPER ARMIS NUNC ET INDUSTRIA Highland and Agricultural Society…

Cone of coarse pottery, usually found outside an Etruscan tomb

Two glass test-tubes, filled with mosaic tesserae (in various shades of blue, red, yellow, green, black and white), stoppered with cottonwool and mounted on a card label: 'Ancient Mosaic Tesserae Rome'