- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- 'Blubber-knife' of more or less semicircular form with edge all round from a 'Pictish' ruin.
- Geographical reference
- Scotland Shetland
- Person
- Field collector J.W. Ramsden
- Field collector John William Ramsden
- PRM source Louis Colville Gray Clarke
- Date
- Date collected
- 1844
- Acquisition information
- Donated: 1922
- Dimensions
- Length: max 171 mm approx, Width: max 120 mm approx
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1922.8.11
- Research and responses
See biograpies for details about JW Ramsden possible match, if I am right then he was relative of the other Ramsden associated with LCG Clarke [AP 17/08/2009]
Further items to explore
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1900.13.6Curved chopper with single edged blade and carved wooden hilt with small button pommel. [SM 30/05/2007]1900.13.6
1954.6.75Brass Heads of Hayagriva as a handle to a flat leaf-shaped blade of bronze, riveted on. There are turquoise stones inlaid on the head-dresses of the demons, some of which are missing. [ASh [OPS move] 24/4/2017]1954.6.75
1934.25.57Small knife with single-edged blade and flat bronze handle, embossed on one side with figure of a shrimp, partly gilded. [El.B 25/4/2007]1934.25.57