Ann Clarke » Stone balls http://annrocks.co.uk Lithic Specialist Tue, 03 Apr 2012 14:12:28 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=388 Odds and sods http://annrocks.co.uk/2009/10/28/clubs-cobbles-and-balls/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=clubs-cobbles-and-balls http://annrocks.co.uk/2009/10/28/clubs-cobbles-and-balls/#comments Wed, 28 Oct 2009 15:13:59 +0000 Ann http://annrocks.co.uk/?p=123
These balls are shaped to almost perfect spheres and may have been used as gaming counters or as some sort of tally system. They are found at hillforts and other Iron Age sites around the SE of Scotland. Hammerstones, flaked stone bars and a saddle quern from St Kilda. Bloodstone was used throughout prehistory to make tools. Just one source - at Bloodstone Hill on the island of Rum, Inverness-shire was exploited and tools and debitage are found at various sites on Rum and further afield. For more information see CR Wickham-Jones 1990 Excavations on Rhum: Mesolithic and Later Sites at Kinloch ]]> http://annrocks.co.uk/2009/10/28/clubs-cobbles-and-balls/feed/ 0