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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…
Pipe. Small clay tobacco pipe, stained yellow and brown.
Clay pipe, name stamped on bowl, see inscription. Received from King's College Library, probably from Dr W Douglas Simpson, Librarian.
Inscription: old label: Fairy Pipe , stamped on bowl: SWINYARD
Inscription: old label: Fairy Pipe , stamped on bowl: SWINYARD
Regulations for the Mort house. A framed document titled Regulations for the management of the vault in the churchyard of Belhelvie. There is also a photograph of a low stone building next to a church in the frame, and the label Vault used to protect bodies from being removed by Resurrectionists.
Regulations for the management of the vault in the kirkyard of Belhelvie 28/01/1832.
Mortsafe model. Three wooden poles arranged in a pyramid shape over a hole in the ground. Hanging over the hole is a coffin shaped slab of stone, suspended from the poles by a series of hooked metal bars and a winch.
Model of an early nineteenth-century Inverurie mortsafe - the original would have been placed over recent burials to prevent the removal of bodies for study.
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.
Pin heads. Three small, roughly cylindrical objects made of orange ceramic with holes running through the centre.
Excavated from an eroding bank behind steading at NJ943547. The pin heads were among a cremated deposit of human bone. Shape: barrel-shaped (only 3 on display May 1992). A similar pin head was found accompanying the cremation deposit at…
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.
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…
Grave slab. A large rectangular block of grey stone, about two feet tall. Carved in relief is a Celtic cross and a pair of shears.
Sandstone slab with relief decoration of a ring-head cross on a stepped base, and a pair of shears on right hand side.