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Old 10-08-2007, 06:59 PM
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In an otherwise fruitless outing in a field in the North-East of Scotland I chanced upon this stone ball on the surface of a ploughed field. I don't know if the hole was man-made, it's about 2mm deep. Any ideas? Thanks!
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Could be the prototype for the development of "A rolling stone gathers no moss."

No idea.

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Old 10-09-2007, 07:50 PM
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thats the ball that took out Goliath! have no idea..its neat tho.

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Hi there,

In an otherwise fruitless outing in a field in the North-East of Scotland I chanced upon this stone ball on the surface of a ploughed field. I don't know if the hole was man-made, it's about 2mm deep. Any ideas? Thanks!
I've found balls like that around old pottery sites - the potters would make little clay balls to separate the pots being fired - that way they could stack the pots and the fire could get to all parts except for the little points where the clay balls touched the pot.
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Default it's a pirate marble!!!!

not really, but I do think it is a manmade clay marble... I've found several.
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Hi there,

In an otherwise fruitless outing in a field in the North-East of Scotland I chanced upon this stone ball on the surface of a ploughed field. I don't know if the hole was man-made, it's about 2mm deep. Any ideas? Thanks!
Maybe Cystoidea, but foto is bad....
For example....http://www.heritagenet.unesco.kz/kz/..._paleozoy2.htm
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TNCSHOOTER, nice pirate marble pic!

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