MessageToEagle.com – These strange artifacts are symmetrical in design and very skillfully manufactured and of an unknown origin.
In form they appear to be quite modern, but they are not. They were found mainly in Scotland and a few of them in England and Ireland.
Archaeologists say these carved stone balls date to approximately 4000 BC, and are made of various stones ranging from sandstone to granite.
They are all of a relative similar size and are decorated with carved evenly-spaced patterns of circular bosses or knobs around the surface of the sphere.
The designs vary with the majority being based around a series of six bosses, but the number of bosses varies from 3-160.
Particularly interesting are those unearthed at the Neolithic site at Skara Brae, one of the Orkney’s most famous ancient sites dated from the late Neolithic – inhabited for around 600 years, between 3200BC and 2200BC.
Three-hundred and seventy-five of these balls are much the same size, with a diameter of about 70mm, but there are also 12 large…
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