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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 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. 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, 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. 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 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, 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. Roughly the size of a tennis ball. Dark grey, polished stone ball with 42 small round knobs.
Carved stone ball in greenstone, Type: 7 (with 42 small knobs).
Carved stone ball. Roughly the size of a tennis ball. Grey stone ball with six large, flat circular knobs equidistant from each other. Each knob has a fine grid pattern cut into it.
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.
Carved Stone Cap Stone
From above cist, carved with curved grooves. Was found at the Upper Mains of Catterline, Kinneff, Kincardine.