Carved wooden toddy-bowl with a hunting and drinking scene, from Caithness

Bowl of thin bronze, possibly the hangman's ladle of Dumfries, Scotland, 18th century

Two-handled silver bowl in the form of a quaich, by R. and H.B. Kirkwood, Edinburgh, 1900 - 1901, engraved with naturalistic thistles

Bowl of black glass, moulded with three legs and two handles, and banded by three rills

Bowl of steatite, oblong with animal-head handle and ornamented with incised lines, from Newton of Auchingoul, Inverkeithny, Banffshire, Scotland

Bronze hanging bowl escutcheon, from the Roman site at Newstead (Trimontium)

Bronze hanging bowl escutcheon, from the Roman site at Newstead (Trimontium)

Bronze hanging bowl escutcheon, from the Roman site at Newstead (Trimontium)

Bronze hanging bowl escutcheon, from the Roman site at Newstead (Trimontium)

Two sherds of a Roman brown glass tubular rimmed bowl, from the Iron Age broch of Torwoodlee, Scottish Borders

Small fragment of a shallow silver bowl, with animals separated by profile masks, from Traprain Law

Bronze bowl, from a grave of a woman and infant, Westness, Rousay, Orkney

Specimen of Bower's oxydised iron, a portion of a cast iron pipe, broken into two pieces

Specimen of Bower's oxydised iron

Oxydised iron pipe with one threaded end, one of eight specimens of Bower's oxydised iron

Aluminium forging - a bowl with green finish, one of a group of specimens illustrating the manufacture of aluminium