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almahu_9949707679802882
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1 online resource (384 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9781803271279
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This study is the culmination of seven years research into the Carved Stone Balls of Late Neolithic Scotland. It is the first study of these enigmatic artefacts since that undertaken by Dorothy Marshall in 1977 and includes all currently known examples in both museums and private hands, described and analysed in considerable detail.
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Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright page -- Contents Page -- List of Figures -- Chapter One -- Figure 1.1: Replica Carved Stone Balls showing fresh colouration. © C. Stewart-Moffitt 2021. -- Figure 1.2: Glass Carved Stone Ball and hand, 'Mine' by Louise Tait. Courtesy of Bam Hyslop. -- Figure 1.3: 'First Conundrum' in Festival Square, Edinburgh created by Remco de Fouw. © Google Images. -- Figure 1.4: 'The Eternal Present: Gneiss, Granite and Gabbro' in Oldmeldrum, Aberdeenshire by artist Janet McEwan. C. Stewart-Moffitt 2018. -- Chapter Two -- Figure 2.1: Artist impression of the Early Neolithic Timber Hall at Balbridie, Aberdeenshire. © ScARF 2020. -- Figure 2.2: The Grey Cairns of Camster, Caithness. ©Northlink Ferries 2020. -- Figure 2.3: Calanais Stone Circle, Isle of Lewis. Google images 2020. -- Chapter Three -- Figure 3.1: Fredereck Rhenius Coles (on the right) surveying The Nine Stanes in Aberdeenshire. © Welfare, Great Crowns of Stone 2011. -- Figure 3.2: Coles' original classification of CSBs in the National Museum of Antiquities, Edinburgh (sic) January 1908. Courtesy of National Museums Scotland. -- Figure 3.3: Coles' third and final classification which included CSBs in private collections at January c.1908-1911. Courtesy of National Museums Scotland. -- Chapter Four -- Figure 4.1: CSB 092, dual textured CSB. Findspot New Byth Aberdeenshire. Courtesy of Aberdeen Maritime Museum. C. Stewart-Moffitt 2017. -- Figure 4.2: Polished Axe made from Andalusite Schist. Findspot Elgin. Morayshire. Courtesy of Elgin Museum. C. Stewart-Moffitt 2015. -- Figure 4.3: CSB 029, from Alness, Ross & -- Cromarty Courtesy of the Trustees of the British Museum. C. Stewart-Moffitt 2015. -- Figure 4.4: Andalusite Schist beach cobble from Boyndie Bay, Banff. C. Stewart-Moffitt 2019.
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Figure 4.5: CSB 078, Oolitic Ironstone. Courtesy of Perth Museum and Art Gallery, Perth and Kinross Council. C. Stewart Moffitt 2014. -- Figure 4.6: Magnified image of CSB 078 showing cavities that were previously filled with Chamosite. Courtesy of Perth Museum and Art Gallery, Perth and Kinross Council. C. Stewart-Moffitt 2019. -- Figure 4.7: Magnified images of samples of Raasay Oolitic Ironstone collected by the author. In this photograph the Chamosite oolites can clearly be seen filling the cavities in the bedrock. C. Stewart-Moffitt 2019. -- Figure 4.8: CSB 022, from Aberdeenshire Courtesy of the Trustees of the British Museum. C. Stewart-Moffitt 2014. -- Figure 4.9: Hand Specimen of coarse-grained 'red' Granite with pink feldspar and grey/translucent Quartz from Corrennie Quarry, Aberdeenshire. C. Stewart-Moffitt 2019. -- Chapter Five -- Figure 5.1: Decorated cist cover from Wester Yardhouses, Carnwath, Lanarkshire. Bradley 2002: 59. -- Figure 5.2: Sarclett Haven, Caithness © Google Images 2020. -- Chapter Seven -- Figure 7.1: CSB 112, Glass, Huntly, Aberdeenshire. Courtesy of Aberdeen University Museum. C. Stewart-Moffitt 2015. -- Figure 7.2: CSB 326, Location Unknown. Courtesy of National Museums Scotland. C. Stewart-Moffitt 2015. -- Figure 7.3: CSB 409, Stoer, Sutherland. Courtesy of National Museums Scotland. C. Stewart-Moffitt 2015. -- Figure 7.4: CSB 353, Location Unknown. Courtesy of National Museums Scotland. C. Stewart-Moffitt 2015. -- Figure 7.5: CSB 417, Location Unknown. Courtesy of National Museums Scotland. C. Stewart-Moffitt. 2015. -- Figure 7.6: CSB 431, Benbecula, Western Isles. Courtesy of National Museums Scotland. C. Stewart-Moffitt 2015. -- Figure 7.7: CSB 012, Auchterless, Aberdeenshire. Courtesy of Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford. C. Stewart-Moffitt 2015.
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Figure 7.8: CSB 233, Armathwaite, Cumbria. From the collections at Tullie House Museum. C. Stewart-Moffitt 2014 -- Figure 7.9: CSB 258, Inveramsay, Aberdeenshire. Courtesy of Aberdeenshire Council Museums Service. C. Stewart-Moffitt. 2015. -- Figure 7.10: CSB 491, New Keig, Aberdeenshire. Courtesy of National Museums Scotland. C. Stewart-Moffitt. 2015. -- Figure 7.11: CSB 117, Tipperty Logie, Aberdeenshire. Courtesy of Aberdeen University Museum. C. Stewart-Moffitt. 2015. -- Figure 7.12: CSB 290, Water of Leith, Edinburgh. Courtesy of National Museums Scotland. C. Stewart-Moffitt. 2015. -- Figure 7.13: CSB 330, Fordoun, Aberdeenshire. Courtesy of National Museums Scotland. C. Stewart-Moffitt. 2015. -- Figure 7.14: CSB 375, Location Unknown. Courtesy of National Museums Scotland. C. Stewart-Moffitt. 2015. -- Figure 7.15: CSB 162, Location Unknown. Courtesy of Aberdeen University Museum. C. Stewart-Moffitt 2015. -- Figure 7.16: CSB 412, Methlick, Aberdeenshire. Courtesy of National Museums Scotland. C. Stewart-Moffitt 2015. -- Figure 7.17: CSB 395, Udny, Aberdeenshire. Courtesy of National Museums Scotland. C. Stewart-Moffitt 2015. -- Figure 7.18: CSB 486, Location Unknown. Copyright Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford 2017. -- Figure 7.19: CSB 413, Huntly, Aberdeenshire. Courtesy of National Museums Scotland. C. Stewart-Moffitt 2015. -- Figure 7.20: CSB 104, Location Unknown. Courtesy of Aberdeen University Museum. C. Stewart-Moffitt 2015. -- Figure 7.21: CSB 356, Location Unknown. Courtesy of National Museums Scotland. C. Stewart-Moffitt 2015. -- Figure 7.22: CSB 452, Towie, Aberdeenshire. Courtesy of National Museums Scotland. C. Stewart-Moffitt. 2015. -- Figure 7.23: CSB 453, Lumphanan, Aberdeenshire. Courtesy of National Museums Scotland. C. Stewart-Moffitt 2015.
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Figure 7.24: CSB 392, Ben Tharson, Ardross, Easter Ross. Courtesy of National Museums Scotland. C. Stewart-Moffitt 2015. -- Figure 7.25: CSB 347, Deeside, Aberdeenshire. Courtesy of National Museums Scotland. C. Stewart-Moffitt 2015. -- Figure 7.26: CSB 214 Roag, Isle of Skye. Reproduced courtesy of Glasgow Museums. C. Stewart-Moffitt 2015. -- Figure 7.27: CSB 026, Stanwix, Carlisle. Courtesy of the Trustees of the British Museum. C. Stewart-Moffitt 2015. -- Figure 7.28: CSB 307, Dyce, Aberdeenshire. Courtesy of National Museums Scotland. C. Stewart-Moffitt 2015. -- Figure 7.29: CSB 388, Elgin, Morayshire. Courtesy of National Museums Scotland. C. Stewart-Moffitt 2015. -- Figure 7.30: CSB 085, Location Unknown. Courtesy of Aberdeen City Council, (Art Gallery & -- Museum Collections). C. Stewart-Moffitt 2015. -- Figure 7.31: CSB 351, Olrig, Caithness. Courtesy of National Museums Scotland. C. Stewart-Moffitt 2015. -- Figure 7.32: CSB 070, Croir, Great Bernera, Western Isles. Courtesy of Great Bernera Museum. C. Stewart-Moffitt 2014. -- Figure 7.33: CSB 130, Croy Wood, Inverness-shire. Courtesy of Aberdeen University Museum. C. Stewart-Moffitt 2015. -- Figure 7.34: CSB 009, Buckie, Banffshire. Courtesy of the University of Manchester Museum. C. Stewart-Moffitt 2015. -- Figure 7.35: CSB 147, Kemnay, Aberdeenshire. Courtesy of Aberdeen University Museum. C. Stewart-Moffitt 2015. -- Figure 7.36: CSB 433, Crieff Farm, Kirriemuir. Courtesy of National Museums Scotland. C. Stewart-Moffitt 2015. -- Figure 7.37: CSB 047, Red Moss, Belhelvie, Aberdeenshire. Courtesy of The Hunterian, University of Glasgow. C. Stewart-Moffitt 2015. -- Figure 7.38: CSB 479, Linn of Muick, Aberdeenshire. Private Hands. C. Stewart-Moffitt 2018.
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Figure 7.39: CSB 068, Jockthorn Farm, Ayrshire. By permission of East Ayrshire Council / East Ayrshire Leisure. C. Stewart-Moffitt 2016. -- Figure 7.40: CSB 014, Fyvie, Aberdeenshire. Courtesy of Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford. C. Stewart-Moffitt 2015. -- Figure 7.41: CSB 339, Tarves, Aberdeenshire. Courtesy of National Museums Scotland. C. Stewart-Moffitt 2015. -- Figure 7.42: CSB 426, Location Unknown. Courtesy of National Museums Scotland. C. Stewart-Moffitt 2015. -- Figure 7.43: CSB 327, Mill of Cromdale, Morayshire. Courtesy of National Museums Scotland. C. Stewart-Moffitt 2015. -- Figure 7.44: CSB 424, Greenlonachs, Culbokie, Ross-shire. Courtesy of National Museums Scotland. C. Stewart-Moffitt 2015. -- Figure 7.45: CSB 470 Ben-a-Chielt, Caithness. Courtesy of National Museums Scotland. C. Stewart-Moffitt 2019. -- Figure 7.46: CSB 287 Inverawe, Argyll. Courtesy of National Museums Scotland. C. Stewart-Moffitt 2015. -- Figure 7.47: CSB 288 Location Unknown. Courtesy of National Museums Scotland. C. Stewart-Moffitt 2015. -- Figure 7.48: CSB 015, Laxdale, Stornaway, Isle of Lewis. From the collections of Museum nan Eilean. C. Stewart-Moffitt 2015. -- Figure 7.49: CSB 003, Cree Moss, Penninghame. Courtesy of Dumfries Museum. C. Stewart-Moffitt 2014. -- Figure 7.50: CSB 372, Location Unknown. Courtesy of National Museums Scotland. C. Stewart-Moffitt 2015. -- Figure 7.51: CSB 127, Kinkell, Aberdeenshire. Courtesy of Aberdeen University Museum. C. Stewart-Moffitt 2015. -- Figure 7.52: CSB 357, Location Unknown. Courtesy of National Museums Scotland. C. Stewart-Moffitt 2015. -- Figure 7.53: CSB 423, Location Unknown. Courtesy of National Museums Scotland. C Stewart-Moffitt 2015. -- Figure 7.54: CSB 092, New Byth, Aberdeenshire. Courtesy of Aberdeen City Council. (Art Gallery & -- Museum Collections). C. Stewart-Moffitt 2015.
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Figure 7.55: CSB 498, Skara Brae, Orkney. Courtesy of National Museums Scotland. C. Stewart-Moffitt 2015.
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Print version: L. Stewart-Moffitt, Chris The Circular Archetype in Microcosm: the Carved Stone Balls of Late Neolithic Scotland Oxford : Archaeopress,c2022 ISBN 9781803271262
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