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Scottish Carved Stone Balls: Past and Present Perspectives
Carved stone balls comprise some of the most intriguing objects prehistoric artefacts in Britain and Ireland. They are primarily found in Aberdeenshire with dense clusters in Orkney and Perthshire. Most come to light as stray finds, but from their style and a very few found in excavated contexts they are dated to the later Neolithic (c3000-2500BC). There are now over 500 of them – all but five from Scotland – and they have intrigued archaeologists since they were first discussed...
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Sacred Theory: Carved Stone Balls
Not surprisingly perhaps, given the sparsity of organic cultural material surviving from later prehistory in the British Isles and Ireland, stone tools have been the focus of considerable research, particularly in terms of their petrological provenance and distribution. Certain classes of stone artefact are ascribed with high-status...