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Razor. A small bronze razor, roughly ellipse shaped with a handle and sharpened on both sides. Running up the centre is a raised area which is decorated with an engraved diamond pattern.
Bronze razor with tang. Decoration on midribs - hatched lozenge pattern (engraved). Found with clay urn and burnt bones in short stone cist.

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Steel razor blade with a tortoiseshell handle. Half opened.

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Equipment for the Rayleigh scattering experiment. Small light bulb, diffuser (frosted glass), 2 lenses, cubical glass container (for liquids?) and a white screen housed in a wooden frame. On base there is a plastic plate object name on it. Complete…

Rattle. A wooden paddle shaped block on a handle. The block has a long cavity at the bottom of which are two thin tongues of wood. These contact two wooden gears which turn and catch the tongues as the block is spun by the handle.

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anthropomorph, probably a toy

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Figure of a ram in blue glazed ware, ring for suspension. Reid (1912): 'The ram was sacred to Khnemu, god of Elephantine, and to Amen, god of Thebes. It was also worshipped at Mendes.'

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Programme for the 1961 Aberdeen University Student Show, the "Rage of Kings" Dated 17th - 22nd April.
A revue produced by Reginald Barrett-Ayres, this celebrated the 40th anniversary of the Student Show.

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Image of an early 20th century radium compress encased in a protective container.
Used for treating rheumatism

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The Chartist, John Mitchell, published and sold his own work. Each of these three poems has a strongly Chartist sentiment.

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