Description (Physical description)
Stone ball with bulbous decoration
Event Date 1906
Author: maa

Context (Related Documents)
The Annual Report for 1906 gives the following details about the acquisition of this carved ball: 'Two fine examples of carved stone balls, with raised bosses of distinct patterns, from Aberdeenshire, the first of their kind acquired by the Museum... have been purchased with Mrs Walter Foster's subscription' (p. 4).
Event Date 1906
Author: Imogen Gunn

Description (Physical description)
Fine-grained grey brown igneous rock with visible flakes of mica. Large ball, with 6 symmetrically placed rounded protuberances that project only moderately. (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: Imogen Gunn

Context (Analysis)
Identified by Marshall as Type 4A (6 knobs, not prominent).
Event Date 1983
Author: Imogen Gunn

Context (Other)
Cf. 1927.574
Event Date 3/4/1992
Author: maa

Context (Amendments / updates)
This ball was given the idno Z 21547 after it apparently lost its association with its original number, 1906.130. The association has been re-created by the fact that it matches both the description and the measurements listed in the Accession Register for 1906.130. There was no CMS record for 1906.130, presumably because the catalogue card is missing, so that idno has been added to this record, the Place field has been updated from '?Scotland' and the Source field updated as well.
Event Date 25/2/2014
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 203 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 Unpublished manuscript.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)