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Description: | Carved stone ball in greenstone. Type: 7 (with 42 small knobs).
"O. 19. STONE BALL, covered with small projecting knobs, found in Upper aberdeenshire. Prof. Christie D.D. 1886."
Author: Michie,Charles Date: 1887 Purpose: Catalogue.of.Antiquities.in.the.Archaeological.Mus
"Kildrummy, Aberdeenshire."
Author: Inglis,Jim & Curtis,Neil Date: 1990 Purpose: Encyclopaedia of the North-East
"Carved stone balls date from about 3500 to 1500 BC, the later Neolithic into the Bronze Age. More than 425 are known, almost all from Scotland, particularly from the North East. Most balls are decorated with large or small knobs, most commonly six knobs, although some of the finest have only four. Some knobs and, sometimes, the spaces between them are decorated with an incised pattern and occasionally the whole ball is decorated with a single design. Their purpose is unknown but they may have been prestige objects. This ball has 42 small rounded knobs and the whole ball is slightly flattened. Its diameter is 69mm. This example was found at Kildrummy, Aberdeenshire."
Author: Feilden,Rosemary Date: 1999 Purpose: SCRAN
Field collector: Christie, J Rev Prof | License: | http://www.abdn.ac.uk/historic/Copyright_terms_conditions.shtml | Publisher: | ABDUA University of Aberdeen, Marischal Museum | Rights holder: | 47718 | Temporal: | 2900 BC-1800 BC; LNEO EBA | Source: | University of Aberdeen | Identifier: | http://calms.abdn.ac.uk/Geology/dserve.e... | Go to resource |
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