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Antler. A bleached antler, with cracks and some pieces broken off.
Reindeer antler (Rangifer tarandus) from Moss of Cruden, Aberdeenshire.
Aurochs skull. The upper part of the skull of a cow like animal, with large horns extending horizontally from the sides of the cranium with a slight twist.
Auroch's skull (Bos primigenius) from Moss of Cruden, Aberdeenshire.
Axe head. A heavy, polished and blunt sandstone axe head with a large circular hole running vertically through the centre.
Sandstone axe head, found with cinerary urn.
Bead
Bead / toggle, in bone, perforated bobbin shape. Found amongst cremated material in an urn at Seggiecrook, 13th March 1907. This bead is very similar to one found in an urn at mains of Carnousie (see ABDUA: 14787). The urn (ABDUA: 19729) was…
Bead. A small pale blue star shaped bead with six points and a hole in the centre, made of a rough ceramic like material.
Shape: 6-pointed star.
Beaker. A small earthenware cup, with three incised horizontal lines below the rim and two rows of diamonds filled with vertical lines on the body.
Incised decoration: on body - lozenges & vertical lines; on rim - 3 bands; on base - 3 bands. Found in a short stone cist, with a mass of brown fibrous material and incomplete skeleton, ABDUA: 14232. Cist was found in gravel bank on the farm of…
Bone toggle. A small toggle made of bone. One end has broken off.
Calcined, broken, bobbin-shaped bead with central perforation. A collared urn was found by Leslie Mutch, the 9 year old son of Mr and Mrs Mutch who farmed the Mains of Carnousie. Contents of the urn included this broken bead or toggle, some pieces…
Coffin mount. A small, damaged sheet of dark grey rusty metal. The figure of a robed child holding a rod of some kind can be made out. The mount is on a piece of card labelled in handwriting Screw and part of the Mounting of a coffin found on the foundations of the Old Carmelite Monastery, Carmelite Street 1869.
Screw and part of the mounting of a coffin, found in Carmelite Street, Aberdeen, 1869. Coffin mount is silver plated, and in the form of an angel. Both objects mounted on card with old label.
Inscription: old label: Screw and part of the Mounting of…
Inscription: old label: Screw and part of the Mounting of…
Cup. A small earthenware cup. The base is about half the size of the opening, and the body flares out dramatically at the middle producing a hexagonal profile. The sides are decorated with incised lines making a pattern of rough diamonds, alternately filled with diagonal lines going one way and another.
Decorated with a rough diamond-like pattern, fine incised lines running in opposite directions, giving a basket-like or woven impression. Small hole pierced through the shoulder. This cup was found in a collared urn (ABDUA: 19742) by Leslie Mutch,…
Flake (6)
5 flint flakes, burned. One is a probable thumbnail scraper. Found in 1904 among the cremated bones in an urn at the farm of Seggiecrook. Museum's 'Slip Catalogue' records 6 flints, one is now missing.