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Keystone. A large, trapezoid piece of beige sandstone. Carved into the upper surface is a male figure with curly hair wearing a robe, sitting cross legged and holding a long boxy object.
Figure of angel playing portative organ, carved in local sandstone. Keystone from an arch, originally part of the 15th-century work of Elgin Cathederal. This sculpture and ABDUA 17828 were recovered from the ruins and kept at Montcoffer House,…
Touting horn. A large horn with a dull red, white and blue cord. The horn is inscribed with numerous names, initials and dates in different styles. Most prominent is the inscription CoLeNsT INDeL 1752, IA MeS BOWMAN 1752, inscribed with rope like writing. Other inscriptions include AD and W.V DF 1750.
A large hunting or 'touting' horn made from an ox horn, with a mouthpiece carved at the point. Eighteenth-century, decorated with incised names, initials and dates, inluding 1707 and 1752. Some of the lettering is in a cross-hatched, rope-like…
Touting horn. A small brown horn with a plain cord. The horn is decorated with incised knotwork patterns.
Hunting or 'touting' horn, made from an ox horn and inscribed with a design of interlace and entwined concentric circles. Dates from later 17th century. When this object was donated the donor said it once was in the collection of George Davidson. …
Man trap. An iron trap with sharp teeth on hinged brackets which are snapped shut by a leaf spring. The leaf spring has part of a chain at one end.
Man trap, in iron, nineteenth century, type: gin trap. Would have been set, hidden in undergrowth, to deter and catch poachers. The jaws are set open by the shank of metal, and when the trap is sprung, by stepping on it, the toothed jaws snap…
Roof boss. A large, round piece of beige sandstone with six roughly cylindrical elements meeting in a cross on the underside. On the upper, round side of the stone is carved two lizard like monsters, each biting the other's tail.
Two beasts snapping at each others tail, carved in local sandstone. 6 rib vault boss originally part of the 15th-century work of Elgin Cathederal. This sculpture and ABDUA 17827 were recovered from the ruins and kept at Montcoffer House,…
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…
Deer trap. A long chunky piece of wood with a section hollowed out along the middle. In the hollow are pieces of wood, most prominently a curved pole with a hinge in the centre which runs the length of the hollow and is fastened down at either end by wooden pegs perpendicular to it.
Single valve 'otter trap' type, made from an alder trunk with trap of birch and the spring of willow. Found in a bog at Auquharney Moss, Cruden, Aberdeenshire. A radio-carbon date of the 6th century AD has been obtained for the trap (OxA-6052:…