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Object numberKITAK.2011.04

TitleNeolithic Carved Stone Ball

DescriptionA carved stone ball with 6 equally proportioned and positioned knobs. Made from rock that is common in South West Highlands of Argyll. It was found in a garden in Lenzie in the 1970s, and was purchased for our collection with assistance from the National Fund for Acquisitions. There are only a small number of these stones found outside the north-east of Scotland. Carved stone balls come in various shapes and sizes and are of interest to mathematicians because of their geometrical sophistication. Maybe they were used as a kind of currency or a counting and numbering system? They suggest that Neolithic society was not as simple or primitive as previously assumed. The meaning and purpose of this object remains a mystery, and we will probably never know what it was used for. The most we can say is that it is a prized object now and it was probably a prized object 5000 years ago.

Production date 3200 - 2500

Production periodNeolithic

Object nameStone Ball

Dimensions

Diameter: 70 mm

Credit linepurchased with assistance from the National Fund for Acquisitions