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Description: | Type, 9d, made of a dark stone, possibly gabbro. Decoration: smooth apart from six small knobs within a trefoil-shaped depression. Marshall (1977), 'It has been suggested that this might be an unfinished ball but, compared with the unfinished balls already described, the very smooth, almost polished surface of the plain part makes it seem probable that the ball is as it was originally designed'.
"found in Insch, 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 carved stone ball is made of a dark stone, possibly gabbro. The ball is slightly larger than average, measuring 77mm in diameter, and the whole surface has been smoothed except for a trefoil-shaped depression with sides about 70mm long. Within this six small knobs have been carved in a triangular pattern, their profile not projecting above the surface of the ball. Decoration on only one part of a ball is unusual, and the design of this one is unique. The ball is possibly unfinished. The ball comes from Insch, Aberdeenshire."
Author: Feilden,Rosemary Date: 1999 Purpose: SCRAN | 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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