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Bead. A small, fat ring shaped bead made of greenish grey glass, with scratches and scuffs.
Shape: flat, circular. Colour: blue green. Type: Plain annular bead (Guido 1978). From a 'stone circle' at Castlehill, Kintore. Ralston & Inglis (1984): 'The 'Castle Hill' was destroyed during the construction of the railway in mid-Victorian…
Portrait of Archibald Simpson. Oil painting of a young looking but balding white man with blue eyes and short wavy reddish brown hair, wearing a black coat and cravat, in an ornate gilded frame.
1/2 portrait, wearing high collar and cravat, dark wide-lapelled coat, balding. Background plain. There are 2 portraits of Simpson by James Giles in the collection (see ABDUA 30147).
Cauldron
Miniature bronze cauldron. Decorated with beaded carination.
Pin heads. Six ball shaped black objects, smooth and glossy with some cracks, and holes on the bottoms, which are slightly flattened. They are about the size of a large marble.
Nine globular pin-heads, in shale. One with part of an iron pin. One of the pin-heads appears to be a nut or gall. Six pin-heads are on display (December 2001). Found when trenching land on Hill of Crichie, Aberdeenshire (February 1856) along…
Print of St. Andrew's Cathedral, Aberdeen. A print of the front of a cathedral with a large arched doorway, three large slightly pointed arch shaped windows with tracery, four decorative towers, crenelated roof lines and a cross at the peak of the central roof.
Engraving of St. Andrew's Cathedral as designed by Archibald Simpson 1822.
Print of Marischal College, Aberdeen. Print of a large building, viewed from an archway looking into the courtyard of the building. It has a large square central tower from which wings with regular gothic windows and archways project sideways, then toward the viewer, then sideways again. At the corners are smaller octagonal towers with pointed domes. Gowned students wander the courtyard and stand under the arch along with a woman and child with umbrellas.
Black and white lithograph of Marischal College, the quadrangle viewed through the archway on Broad Street, before the addition of the Mitchell Tower. Two female figures with parasols on left, capped and gowned figures in groups, walking, talking.…
Leaflets. Three leaflets with illustrations, diagrams, photographs and information about specific stone circles in Aberdeenshire.
Three leaflets produced by Grampian Regional Council on stone circles in the region.