Context (Auction / Sale)
Catalogue card: 'Bought from Sim [?] the furrier, Castle Street, Aberdeen.'
Event Date
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)

Description (Physical description)
Typed catalogue card for 1927.563 [A-B]: '2 scrapers, 1 stone ball.'
Event Date
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)

Description (Physical description)
Stone ball with bulbous decoration
Event Date 1927
Author: maa

Description (Physical description)
Pale brown granite of medium grain. A flattened sphere, oblate rather than round, with 6 symmetrically placed shallow, rather flattened protuberances. (See Marshall in Bib)
Event Date 1983
Author: maa

Context (References)
Marshall, D. N. (1983). 'Further Notice on Carved Stone Balls' in Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland. Vol. 113, pp. 628-646.
Event Date 1983
Author: maa

Context (Analysis)
Identified in Marshall incorrectly as '2J.563'. Marshall identifies the ball as Type 4A (6 knobs not prominent).
Event Date 9/12/2013
Author: Imogen Gunn

Context (Analysis)
Chris Stewart-Moffitt, Bute Archaeology, examined all of MAA's carved stone balls in 2014 for his BA at Leicester University, for which he is compiling a database of all known such balls. He assigned it number CSB 200 for his digital database.
Event Date 24/2/2015
Author: Imogen Gunn

Context (References)
Stewart-Moffitt, Chris L. (2016). Revised Typographical Classification for Carved Stone Balls. Unpublished manuscript.
(Three accompanying DVDs)
Event Date 2016
Author: Annie McKay

Context (Related Documents)
See Doc.424 for Chris Stewart-Moffitt revised typology of carved stone balls.
Event Date 28/8/2018
Author: Annie McKay

Context (References)
Stewart-Moffitt, Chris. (2022). The Circular Archetype in Microcosm: The Carved Stone Balls of Late Neolithic Scotland. Oxford: Archaeopress Publishing Ltd.
Event Date 2022
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)