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
