Newburgh
Carved Stone Ball
Site Name Newburgh
Classification Carved Stone Ball
Canmore ID 30136
Site Number NO21NW 74
NGR NO 23 18
NGR Description NO c. 23 18
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
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- Council Fife
- Parish Newburgh
- Former Region Fife
- Former District North East Fife
- Former County Fife
NO21NW 74 c. 23 18
A large carved stone ball (type 11: over 90mm diameter) from Newburgh with 14 knobs, ie. two round bosses and twelve triangular ones, is in RMS (AS 201).
D N Marshall 1979.
The carved stone ball that is held in the Royal Museum of Scotland under accession number NMS AS 201 is provenanced as from 'Newburgh, Fife' and was bought at Dowell's Isles Sale in 1900. It measures 3.25 ins (83mm) in diameter, is divided by grooves into fourteen traiangular and circular low knobs, has been worked from coarse-grained sandstone, and weighs 900.4 gms.
Information from Mr T Cowie (RMS), 13 February 1998.
