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Bellarmine wine jar. A fat mottled brown ceramic bottle with a handle, a rose stamped on the middle, and on the neck a face of an elderly bearded man with bushy eyebrows.
Bellarmine wine jar; glaze colour, dark & light tan (mottled), rose medallion & bearded caricature stamped on the side (a Protestant caricature of Cardinal Bellarmine.)
Pot. A small earthenware bowl with fragments missing. Curved dotted lines decorate the surface.
Round based, decoration: alternate hatching. Was found in the Den of Craig (or near to) Auchindoir. Supposedly in a 'cist'.
Inscription: Old label: 32
Inscription: Old label: 32
Mace head. A small rounded rectangular slab of greenish stone with bands of darker and lighter colours. A perfectly circular hole about the size of a ten pence piece has been drilled near one end.
Flat, rectangular mace head, known as a ÔÇ£cushionÔÇØ type. Perforation is cylindrical. Green coloured stone, a hornfelsed phyllite from Killin, Perthshire. Findspot unknown.
Axe head. A large oblong piece of dark brown polished stone with orange speckles. The stone is wider and sharpened at one end.
Type: splayed & round butt
Pot sherds. Four pieces of the rim of a large earthenware pot glued together. There are two small holes a few centimetres below the rim.
Rim shape: rounded & everted. Four sherds joined together (in 1984), has two holes for suspension, part of a cooking pot?
Bellarmine wine jar. A fat mottled brown ceramic bottle with a design containing a love heart stamped on the middle, and on the neck a face of a grimacing elderly bearded man with bushy eyebrows. The upper neck has broken off.
Wine jar, 'Greybeard' or 'Bellarmine' type. Neck broken off. According to donor, Dr W D Simpson, in 1938: 'Dredged up by a trawler off the mouth of Aberdeen Harbour.'
Flagon. A brown ceramic bottle about a foot tall with a fat body and a small handle at the neck.
Glaze colour: dark tan. Handle type: pulled. Neck shape: short.
Inscription: FOUND IN RORA MOSS LANGSIDE 50FT DOWN
Inscription: FOUND IN RORA MOSS LANGSIDE 50FT DOWN
Dairy bowl. A large cream coloured ceramic bowl with depressed brown decoration inside. The surface has a shiny glaze. The decoration consists of three rounded rectangular areas containing four hearts each and vines, a triangular pattern with dots inside on the rim, a six pointed star with oval shaped arms inside a ring with triangles and dots in it on the base, and the inscription Mrs ALLEN, No3. Mortimer's Lane, Inverurie, Feb 15th 1887.
Large round bowl. Colour: cream & brown. Inscription and patterns around internal walls of bowl.
Inscription: Around internal walls: Mrs ALLEN No 3 Mortimer's Lane INVERURIE FEB 15th 1887
Inscription: Around internal walls: Mrs ALLEN No 3 Mortimer's Lane INVERURIE FEB 15th 1887
Dairy bowl. A large cream coloured ceramic bowl with depressed brown decoration inside. The surface has a shiny glaze. The decoration consists of an eight pointed star inside a ring on the base, a peacock, flowers, an insignia consisting of a pair of crossed flags, an anchor, a pair of crosses swords a crown and the initials V R; and the inscription Mrs. David Rew, FEBY 4th 1882.
Large round shallow bowl. Colour: cream & brown.
Inscription: Mrs David Rew Feby 1862
Inscription: Mrs David Rew Feby 1862
Kiln stands. Two simple cylindrical vessels of dark orange ceramic with a flared rims and bases.
One of two Shape: flared cylinder glaze (traces), colour: green. - same as other is in National Museums of Scotland. When discovered the vessels were filled with 'ashes' and may belong to the class of vessels found in Christian Graves of the 12/16…