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Moulding. Plaster figure of Christ on a block about five inches tall, broken at the mid torso. His face is turned to his right and his left hand is on his chest.
Plaster moulding of Christ from Monymusk Kirk.
Inscription: Box marked: MONYMUSK CHRIST
Inscription: Box marked: MONYMUSK CHRIST
Costrel. Fragment of a bronze bottle with the neck and part of the body which has thin horizontal grooves on it.
Brass costrel, or pilgrim's flask, from the Hospital of Kincardine o Neil. Decoration in the middle: chevron-pattern.
Carved stone ball. About the size of a cricket ball, made of coarse dark brown stone and carved with a spiral around its whole surface.
Made from a coarse granite, slightly flattened. Type: 9a. Decoration: spiral carving.
Axe head. A large axe head made of green jadeite, in a long rounded triangle shape, with a wooden haft.
Shape: round blade & narrow butt. Possibly an exotic import. Haft added in nineteenth or twentieth century.
Bottle. A small narrow glass bottle about five inches long. The body is slightly bulbous and the neck is about half the length of the bottle. The rim flares out. The glass is aqua blue at the bottom and fades to light green.
Small glass bottle from Loch Kinnord, Roman. Slip of paper accompanied bottle: 'was fished out of the Loch of Kinnord, nr Dinnet. It came from Lord Huntley's collection at Aboyne Castle.'
Seal matrix. A bronze disc with a handle on the back. Depressed into the front is a design of a coat of arms split in half with three dog heads and a diagonal band on one side and a book on the other, with a bishop's hat above it. Around the edge is the inscription SIGILLVM COMMUNE GEORGII EPISCOPI ABERDONEN.
Round seal matrix with shield of Bishop George Haliburton (Bishop of Aberdeen 1682-89), handle on reverse.
Inscription: SIGILLVM COMMUNE GEORGII EPISCOPI ABERDONEN :
Inscription: SIGILLVM COMMUNE GEORGII EPISCOPI ABERDONEN :
Seal bulla. A small lead disc. On one side in relief is a design of two bearded heads on either side of a tree like shape with a dagger in the middle and the inscription SPASPE. On the other side is the inscription CLE MENS PPVI with flowers and a border of dots.
Papal bulla (seal), of Pope Clement VI.
Keystone. A large, thick octagonal block of reddish brown stone about a foot wide with a hole in the centre. On the sides are carvings of lambs, and on the surface is carved a cross with a heart between the arms, a ladder and a human figure.
From the chapel at Whitehill, New Deer, carving in old red sandstone, shape: octagonal, showing scenes of the Passion.