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Description: | Small fine igneous rock ball, probably greenstone but awaiting geological comment by Roger Taylor. The ball is circular in plan and ovate in profile and section, with pecking all over the upper surface and a flattened base, perhaps through grinding or hammering. Such pieces do turn up on domestic sites but not in any quantity compared to mullers and rubbers. On these objects the waterworn cobble surfaces are all fresh and unweathered, appropriate for selection from a beach during the Neolithic. The beach selection would ensure hard enduring pieces. It is quite possible that the wear on these objects has been caused by grinding pieces in the axe manufacture process. These stone balls have parallels with Beaker and Neolithic artefacts, for example that found near the Beaker site at Boscaswell. None of them have been worked all over and the working looks very similar to that on the pestles (Henrietta Quinnell, Clodgy Moor stonework, forthcoming).Examples of stone balls have been found on Neolithic and Bronze Age sites in Cornwall, such as the Beaker site at Boscaswell, St Just, illustrated in Jones and Quinnell (2008) on page 48, Fig.12, Nos.S5 & S6.
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