Carved stone balls are mysterious and uniquely Scottish objects. They are thought to date from the late Neolithic period, more than 4000 years ago. We do not know what they were for or how they ...

Carved stone balls which have been shaped by the ... questions about how it came to be in Scandinavia. The ‘Scottish Ball’ of Norway has come to be known as the ‘Lindasen Ball’, after ...

Archaeologists have long been intrigued by stone spheroids, peculiar artifacts scattered across archaeological sites worldwide. Dating as far back as 2.5 million years, these roughly spherical ...

Late Neolithic carved stone balls, a Bronze Age log-boat, medieval horse-bone ice skates, and a 17th-century silk-and-satin slashed doublet (probably made for a wedding, and in rare, remarkable ...

The Carved Stone Balls are distinctly Scottish objects with the majority found in Aberdeenshire. However several have been discovered in Orkney and a few have been found on Skye, Iona, Lewis ...