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Arrow Arrow Head
Flint arrowhead, type: single-barbed / British oblique f.
Inscription: written in ink on one face: Benachie
Inscription: written in ink on one face: Benachie
Arrow Arrow Head
Flint arrowhead. Type: barbed and tanged / Kilmarnock n.
Solar pyrheliometer. A large instrument made of steel, brass and wood. Three small fan shaped steel plates which can be rotated are positioned over a long brass cylinder which extends from a squat wooden cylinder, suspended in a ring mount allowing the apparatus to be rotated in multiple directions.
Silver disk pyreheliometer for measuring the power in solar radiation. Instrument purchased from Smithsonian Institution who developed the device. Can be seen in use in the photograph of the total solar eclipse of 1927 taken on top of the Cromwell…
Arrowhead. A small orange, leaf shaped flint arrowhead with part of a wooden shaft. The arrowhead is fitted into a slit on the tip of the shaft.
Leaf-shaped flint arrowhead, part of wooden haft survives.
Arrowhead. An iron arrowhead with part of a wooden shaft. The arrowhead has a socket which fits over the shaft.
From a collection of items from Coull Castle. Museum's Slip Catalogue: 'medieval relics from Coull Castle. Was found in the South door of domestic range.'
Telescope. Brass telescope, about half a meter long, covered with dark wood veneer. It has an ornate brass stand with curved legs.
Reflecting telescope with Gregorian optics, possibly made in London, concave secondary mirror, no name on speculum-metal primary mirror. Unusual brass pillar stand possibly made in Edinburgh. Upright image of magnification x8.
Inscription: Old label…
Inscription: Old label…
Arrowhead. A small flint arrowhead lodged in a piece of wood.
Leaf-shaped flint arrowhead stuck in thorn tree wood.
Inscription: Old label: stone arrowhead stuck in tree the result of an ancient shot, CROMAR
Inscription: Old label: stone arrowhead stuck in tree the result of an ancient shot, CROMAR
Silver arrow. Arrow, about a foot long, in silver with a ring at the end. The fins of the arrow have an engraved crown and coat of arms on them.
Silver arrow. Prize formerly contended for by a Fraternity of Bowmen in Aberdeen.
Inscription: Engraved with: coat.of.arms of Earls.Marischal and L WK vicit anno 1769
Inscription: Engraved with: coat.of.arms of Earls.Marischal and L WK vicit anno 1769
Barometer. Large barometer, about a metre tall, with a glass tube containing mercury. The wooden frame is elaborately carved at the top in a triangular shape with scrolls on the sides and a rose at the top. The body is covered with paper which has the instructions printed on and is decorated with gothic arches and trefoils.
Rectangular barometer, with thermometer and altimeter (broken). Display: column.
Inscription: Admiral Fitzroy's
Inscription: Admiral Fitzroy's