2000 BC SCOTLAND ASHMOLEAN MUSEUM BALLS

Five Neolithic carved sandstone balls held at the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, part of the wider corpus of several hundred such objects found mainly in Scotland and dated broadly to the late Neolithic.

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• Date — 2,000 BC
• Where — Scotland (findspots for individual balls vary); five examples are held at the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford. 56.5000, -4.0000 — approximate
• Evidence grade — WEB-PHOTO

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