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.

ABDUA:16273

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 balls already described, the very smooth, almost polished surface of the plain part makes it seem probable that the ball is as it was originally designed'.

Early: -2900 Late: -1800 Period: LNEO EBA

stone greenstone ? gabbro ?, Dia: 77 mm

Physical Object

Europe, Scotland, North East Scotland, Insch Aberdeenshire