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Wooden coffin of Thesaberu, lid painted and inscribed, mask of head raised. Contains mummy of female (24-30yrs), in brown linen swathings. X-ray of mummy shows arms folded over chest.

Coggie. A tub shaped wooden bowl made of interlocking staves of alternating dark and light wood bound with canes. The handle is formed from a longer stave and has the upper half of a heart shape carved at the top.
Bowl or 'coggie' made of 20 wooden staves (dark and light wood, alternately), with a flat base and a single handle, made from one longer stave. Bound with 9 encircling cane or withies bands. Shape: miniature copy of a milk cog. Probably used as…

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Cohering plates. Two thick brass discs about eight centimetres wide, one slightly larger than the other, with handles.
Brass cohering rings with handles. Smaller base solid brass. Larger base has solid centre 75 mm with rounded additional rim. Two plates accurately finished so that when wrung together they would cohere due to natural interatomic boding between plates…

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Silver coin, groat - 1st issue. Obv: Bust of king (James IV), within a dotted circle, three-quarters to l., draped and wearing arched crown. Rev: Long cross pattee with crown and three pellets enclosing an annulet, in alternate angles. Cross on…

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From the 'Shoe Lane hoard'. Almost illegible. Old label: 'About 2 Bushels found in Shoe Lane Aberdeen 1847...' Obv: Rev: [ ] VICIT [ ]

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'Found in removing Old houses at Nth end of St Nicholas St Abdn. Inscription: Obv: +EDWRANGLONS Rev: CIVI TAS LON DON

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Silver pennies, Edward II.

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Silver coin, penny - 2nd issue. Obv: Head of king (Alexander III) to left, crowned; before, sceptre. Rev: Long cross pattee with a mullet in each quarter (a 'mullet' is a star with a hole in centre). Three of the mullets have six points and one…
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