Browse Artefacts (885 total)

Heavy, spheroid metal ball. No label.

Metal axe head with short wooden handle. Label attached reads 'The axe to which the label is attached was found in coal cellar at no.1 Cameron Place, Craigs Road, Dumfries and is referred to in the case of John Maxwell Muir'.

Muir was found guilty…

Dagger with metal blade and woven leather handle. No label.

Small metal blade with wooden handle, possibly homemade. No label

Small metal head with wooden handle. Handle is flaking apart. No label.

Short, rounded metal blade with wooden handle, paint evident on object. No label.

Small metal hook with wooden handle. No label.

Short wooden truncheon with attached cord. Carved 'Z' close to top end. No label.

This bottle is empty.

So called because it was originally made from deer antlers, spirit [of] hartshorn was another name for liquid ammonia. It was created through the process of distillation, which many people did not have the ability to…