Archaeology Notes

Event ID 650583

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NC80SW 10 c. 836 008

A carved stone ball was found in 1933 during ploughing operations on the farm of Golspie Towers. The ball is of grey porphyrite and has six prominent protuberances in high relief almost identical in size at 1.7ins in diameter and hemispherical in shape. The overall size equals two knob-diameters of 3.2ins.

J M Davidson 1940.

A carved stone ball answering the description given by Davidson is in Dunrobin Museum (Accession no: X37). Its provenance is not stated.

Visited by OS (N K B) 15 June 1976.

X37 in Dunrobin Museum, is a ball of brown sandstone with six high rounded knobs, much damaged, and c.2.8ins in diameter.

Information contained in TS of Catalogue of Dunrobin Museum by A S Henshall.