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Pictish beads. Nineteen glass beads in ring and rounded triangle shapes. The triangular beads are of brown and blue glass with opaque yellow spirals on them, and the ring shaped beads are in blue, white, yellow, green and grey glass in swirly patterns.

Cup. A small bowl like cup made of carved and polished black and brown speckled stone, with a blocky handle projecting horizontally from one side.

Extremely finely polished surface, triangular tab handle. Was once in the 'museum' at the Burn o' Vat, from where it was purchased by Dr Johnson. Found near, or within, one of the hut circles on Culblean Hill.

Tags: Case 32

Chain. A silver chain about 11 centimetres long with ring shaped links each about three centimetres wide. The chain alternates between single and double links.

Part of a metal chain, circular links, double linked alternating with single links. Is of a type usually referred to as 'Pictish'. Was found at a depth of 18' on the North promontory of Nigg Bay, Nigg, Kincardineshire, April 1796.

Tags: Case 32

Terret. A bronze, roughly oval shaped ring covered in a dark, smooth green patina. The ring is narrow at the top and thickens toward the bottom which is flat and has a ridge projecting into the middle of the ring.

Massive, Donside.

Tags: Case 32

Curracks. A large wooden frame about a foot and a half wide and tall. The frame is L shaped with bars across it. The sides of the horizontal part curve upwards toward the tips, and the bar across the top of the vertical part has a loop of rope attached.

Pair of wooden currachs, used as panniers for carrying fuel etc.
Inscription: stamped I. P.

Tags: Case 32

Tuskar. A spade with a long, rounded rectangular iron blade and a wooden handle. The blade has a flattened spike or wing projecting from it perpendicularly on the end on one side.

Peat spade (or tuskar) with broad, round-ended blade and short wing that is typical of Aberdeenshire. The spade might be used vertically or horizontally, according to the type of peat bed. The end of the spade and the wing are made from a single…

Tags: Case 32

Symbol stone. A roughly rectangular slab of beige sandstone about two feet high and almost one and a half feet wide, broken at the top and bottom. Carved on the stone in simple outlines is a dog like beast with a long, curved muzzle, a mirror with a handle, a comb, and a rectangular area divided into three columns the outer two of which have a pattern of zig zagging ovals.

Pictish stone with following symbols: Pictish.beast & mirror & comb & decorated.rectangle , type: class 1.

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Pictish beads. Nineteen glass beads in ring and rounded triangle shapes. The triangular beads are of brown and blue glass with opaque yellow spirals on them, and the ring shaped beads are in blue, white, yellow, green and grey glass in swirly patterns.

Cup. A small bowl like cup made of carved and polished black and brown speckled stone, with a blocky handle projecting horizontally from one side.

Chain. A silver chain about 11 centimetres long with ring shaped links each about three centimetres wide. The chain alternates between single and double links.

Terret. A bronze, roughly oval shaped ring covered in a dark, smooth green patina. The ring is narrow at the top and thickens toward the bottom which is flat and has a ridge projecting into the middle of the ring.

Curracks. A large wooden frame about a foot and a half wide and tall. The frame is L shaped with bars across it. The sides of the horizontal part curve upwards toward the tips, and the bar across the top of the vertical part has a loop of rope attached.

Tuskar. A spade with a long, rounded rectangular iron blade and a wooden handle. The blade has a flattened spike or wing projecting from it perpendicularly on the end on one side.