New Scone
Carved Stone Ball(S) (Stone)(Neolithic)
Site Name New Scone
Classification Carved Stone Ball(S) (Stone)(Neolithic)
Alternative Name(s) Murrayshall
Canmore ID 28146
Site Number NO12NW 18
NGR NO 15 26
NGR Description NO 15 26 to NO 13 26
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/28146
- Council Perth And Kinross
- Parish Scone
- Former Region Tayside
- Former District Perth And Kinross
- Former County Perthshire
No further information was found regarding the findspots of these stone balls. They are in Perth Museum; their old accession numbers are 1290 (proposed new number is 90) and 1290B.
D N Marshall 1977.
NO12NW 18 15 26 to 13 26.
There are two stone balls, each ball bearing four carved discs, in the Museum of the Literary and Antiquarian Soiety of Perth (now incorporated in Perth Museum.) They were found in the fields between Murrayshall (NO 1526) and New Scone, (NO 1326) and were presented to the Society by John Murray of Murrayshall, in 1832.
J A Smith 1876; Information from Dr J Bower, Perth Literary Antiq Soc.
