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Description: | Type: 9b, with six large knobs, made of a pale-coloured sandstone. Each knob is carved with a similar pattern of three concentric rings with a central boss. The ball was found at Cairnroben, Banchory Devenick, Kincardineshire during the middle of the 19th century.
"found in Cairnroben, Banchory, Devenick, Kincardineshire."
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 is a particularly fine and unusual example of a decorated ball with six large knobs, made of a pale-coloured sandstone. Each of the knobs is carved with a similar pattern of three concentric rings with a central boss. This gives the knobs a rounded rather than the usual flat profile. The ball was found at Cairnroben, Banchory Devenick, Kincardine during the middle of the 19th century."
Author: Feilden,Rosemary Date: 1999 Purpose: SCRAN
Field collector: Thomson, Mr Alexander | 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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