Fyvie

NJ73NE 14 c. 76 37.

There are numerous published references to stone balls from Fyvie (NJ 7637):

(i) with 53 knobs, 3ins in diameter, and

(ii) with 15 knobs, 2 5/8ins in diameter, both found in 1875, were purchased for the NMAS from the collection of John Sturrock, Monikie, in 1889 (Acc. Nos. AS 80 and AS 81 respectively) (Marshall 1979).

(iii) A stone ball (no details given) was an item in the collection of

W Smith, station agent at Maud, in 1894 (TBFC 1895).

(iv, v, vi) 3ins, 3ins and 2ins in diameter respectively, were items in the collection of John Rae, Aberdeen, sold in 1892 (Rae 1892). Casts of two of them, 2 5/8ins in diameter with six knobs and worked interspaces, and 2 7/8ins in diameter with six not very prominent knobs, were donated by Rae to the NMAS in 1881 and 1885 (AS 22 and AS 51 respectively) (Marshall 1979).

(vii), with four knobs, was purchased for the National Museum of Antiquities of Scotland [NMAS] in 1913-4 (AS 171) (Marshall 1979).

(viii) with six discs, 2 5/8ins in diameter, was an exhibit in the Scottish Exhibition of National History, Art and Industry, held in Glasgow in 1911, lent by J Neilson (Palace of History 1911).

(ix, x, xi), all with six not very prominent knobs, are in the Anthropological Museum, Marischal College, Aberdeen University (referred to in later entries as 'AMMC') (Acc No: 159/31), Inverurie Museum (AS 19), and in the possession of Mr David Levie, respectively (Marshall 1979).

(xii) with six knobs and worked interspaces, is in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford (Acc. No: 1927.2731) (Marshall 1979).

(xiii) with six knobs, and decorated with hatchings and incised lines, is in the AMMC (159.4) (Marshall 1979).

(xiv), of diorite, 65mm in diameter, is also in the AMMC, purchased from the Wilson Collection in 1910 (Acc. No. 158) (Reid 1912).

Proc Soc Antiq Scot 1881; Proc Soc Antiq Scot 1885; J Sturrock 1889; Proc Soc Antiq Scot 1890; NMAS 1892; J Rae 1892; TBFC 1895; Palace of History 1911; R W Reid 1912; Proc Soc Antiq Scot 1914; D N Marshall 1979.