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Carved stone ball. Roughly the size of a soft ball. Beige stone ball with 30 large round knobs arranged irregularly.
Type: 7 (30 knobs), oblate, made of granite. The distribution of the knobs over the surface of the ball is not quite regular.
Carved Stone Ball Ball Stone Ball
Type:4b (6K), made of granite, with six large, well-defined knobs, about 4mm high.
Carved Stone Ball Ball Stone Ball
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…
Carved stone ball. Roughly the size of a tennis ball. Black stone ball, very round and polished smooth except for a triangular shaped depression on one side which has six shallow round knobs arranged in a pyramid pattern.
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…
Carved stone ball. Roughly the size of a tennis ball. Brown stone ball with four large, circular knobs and an additional four small round knobs in between the larger ones.
Type: 2a, four large knobs with four small knobs in each of the spaces between the large ones. The surface of the knobs is plain and smoothed.
Carved stone ball. Roughly the size of a tennis ball. Brown, coarse stone ball with six small squarish flat knobs arranged equidistant to each other.
A large carved stone ball, type: 11, probably made of granite. Found at Skelmuir, Old Deer, Aberdeenshire at the end of the 19th century. The ball has six large knobs but the space between them is much larger than in other balls with six knobs,…
Carved stone ball. About the size of a cricket ball, made of coarse dark brown stone and carved with a spiral around its whole surface.
Made from a coarse granite, slightly flattened. Type: 9a. Decoration: spiral carving.
Sculpture Carving Knight
Large stone effigy, in sandstone, of an armoured knight from the ruins of Elgin Cathedral, Morayshire. It is carved nearly in the round but with the back attached to a wall and comprises head and torso. The knight wears armour of the late 15th…
Carved stone ball. Roughly the size of a tennis ball. Black, polished stone ball with four large flat circular knobs arranged equidistant from each other. The knobs have a finely cut grid pattern and each square is rounded to produce tiny squarish knobs. The spaces between the large knobs are cut with lines that flow around the knobs.
Type: 9c, 4 knobs, made of serpentine. Four large, dome-shaped knobs and is finely decorated all over. Each knob is cross-hatched, carefully incised to make tiny cubes between the incised lines. The spaces between the knobs are decorated with fine…
Beaker. A small earthenware cup, with three incised horizontal lines below the rim and two rows of diamonds filled with vertical lines on the body.
Incised decoration: on body - lozenges & vertical lines; on rim - 3 bands; on base - 3 bands. Found in a short stone cist, with a mass of brown fibrous material and incomplete skeleton, ABDUA: 14232. Cist was found in gravel bank on the farm of…