Artefact Recovery

Date 1950

Event ID 557682

Category Recording

Type Artefact Recovery

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/557682

NO 2365 1813 An irregular carved stone ball with five main knobs, four smaller intermediary knobs and one slighter raised oval. 'Dug up in the Barns of Woodside garden sometime in the late 1950s' by the aunt of Mrs Violet Byars. Maximum dimension 76mm; weight 562g. The stone (identified by Suzanne Miller) is a garnet-mica-schist.

Claimed as treasure trove (TT.04/07) and allocated to Fife Council Museums (St Andrews).

A Saville 2007