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Description: | Type, 9c (cross hatched), incomplete. Originally had six large, well-defined, raised knobs about 5mm high carved on the surface, four adjacent knobs are decorated with incised cross-hatching.
"Fyvie, 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 example is incomplete but originally had six large, well-defined, raised knobs about 5mm high carved on the surface. It is 80.5mm in diameter. It was found at Fyvie in Aberdeenshire. This ball is more unusual because four adjacent knobs are decorated. This cross-hatched pattern is a frequent design on carved stone balls."
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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