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Re: Neolithic Carved Stone Balls
Feb 14, 2010, 17:57
tiompan wrote:
Branwen wrote:
It might have come up before, but has anyone got any links or books to recommend about carved stone balls like these? They've been found all over the place in Scotland. Some of them remind me of inverted rockart, bumps instead of dips, raised patterns instead of grooved ones.

http://www.georgehart.com/virtual-polyhedra/figs/ashmolean-1927-2727-31-large.jpg


There are no books on carved stone balls that i know of .Although there are a couple of good PSAS articles ,particularly the one by Dorothy Marshall .I'll dig out the details . They are very localised to Aberdeenshire with just a few strays in Fife , Angus and futher south and west . The Towie ball is incredible and certainly has similarities ,like others with RA .


While I was north of the border last year I bought a copy of 'The Making of Scotland' - Farmers, Temples and Tombs, Scotland in the Neolithic and Early Bonze Age. The front cover consists of a photo of the carved stone ball from Glass Hill, Towie c. 3000bc.
Author Gordon Barclay, published by Historic Scotland.

PS: It is beautiful.
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