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Carved stone ball, Towie, Aberdeenshire3D Model
Carved stone ball, Towie, Aberdeenshire
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More model informationA Late Neolithic (3200-2500 cal BC) carved stone ball with four knobs. Three of the knobs are incised with exceptionally fine motifs, including spirals and concentric circles. Some of the interspaces have also been decorated.
Accesson No.: X.AS 10 Locality: Glass Hill, Towie, Aberdeenshire, Scotland Weight: 532.5g Diameter: 76.2mm
Model produced by Dr Hugo Anderson-Whymark
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Thanks for sharing! My hypothesis is that it's related to alchemy. It looks like a tetrahedron and in alchemy it's related to fire, and the patterns look like a dynamics of a fire. If it's carved for projectile it's too expensive. It would be great if you could share with 3D scanned 3D model in order to solve it's mystery by public.
Interesting that it is decorated on only three 'sides' that would suggest to me that the item is designed to be orientated in one way, perhaps mounted in something?
Wish I could download it, I would simulate spinning it like a top to see what kind of patterns emerge.
These stones have been used in battles as projectiles. They have been produced with melting the rock and have been used in energetic guns in ancient times.