| Caption | "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 is made of a fine-grained stone and has ten large knobs and two small knobs. These small knobs are of slightly different sizes, and fill the spaces on either side of one large knob. The spacing of the knobs is not symmetrical. This ball is unusual in having twelve projections. It was found at Lambhill Farm, Fyvie, Aberdeenshire."
Author: Feilden,Rosemary Date: 1999 Purpose: SCRAN
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