| Object History Note | The object was displayed in the first exhibition ('100 Curiosities') at King's Museum which opened in April 2011. |
| Publication Note | LEMUR database; Michie C (1887) Catalogue of Antiquities in the Archaeological Museum, King's College, University of Aberdeen, Item O19 p23Marshall D N (1977) Carved Stone Balls in PSAS v108 pp40-72Reid R W (1912) Illustrated Catalogue of the Anthropological Museum, University of Aberdeen p9 (illustrated p11) Marshall(1977), 143 |
| Caption | "O. 19. STONE BALL, covered with small projecting knobs, found in Upper aberdeenshire. Prof. Christie D.D. 1886."
Author: Michie,Charles Date: 1887 Purpose: Catalogue.of.Antiquities.in.the.Archaeological.Mus
"Kildrummy, Aberdeenshire."
Author: Inglis,Jim & Curtis,Neil Date: 1990 Purpose: Encyclopaedia of the North-East
"Carved stone balls date from about 3500 to 1500 BC, the later Neolithic into the Bronze Age. More than 425 are known, almost all from Scotland, particularly from the North East. Most balls are decorated with large or small knobs, most commonly six knobs, although some of the finest have only four. Some knobs and, sometimes, the spaces between them are decorated with an incised pattern and occasionally the whole ball is decorated with a single design. Their purpose is unknown but they may have been prestige objects. This ball has 42 small rounded knobs and the whole ball is slightly flattened. Its diameter is 69mm. This example was found at Kildrummy, Aberdeenshire."
Author: Feilden,Rosemary Date: 1999 Purpose: SCRAN
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