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Carved stone ball. Roughly the size of a tennis ball. Brown stone ball, very round, with six large flat circular knobs equidistant from one another.
Type: 4a, 6 knobs, not very prominent.
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. 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…
Carved stone ball. Roughly the size of a tennis ball. Black, coarse stone ball with six large squarish knobs equidistant from one another.
Type: 4b, six knobs.
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. Beige stone ball with four large, flat circular knobs equidistant from each other. Three of the knobs have different spiral and rose like designs cut on them.
Type: 9b (4 knobs), made of serpentine. Three of the knobs are finely carved, each with a different design. In the 19th century this ball was part of the collection of Aboyne Castle, Aberdeenshire.
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. 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.
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Type:4b (6K), made of granite, with six large, well-defined knobs, about 4mm high.
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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…