Carved stone ball

Culture: [Neolithic](http://n2t.net/ark:/99152/p0qhb6685qn) Material: Stone Diam 6.4cm Accession No: HCA 207 Current Location: [The Hunt Museum](https://www.huntmuseum.com/), [Limerick](https://www.geonames.org/7778675/limerick-city.html). Stone sphere carved with 4 large equidistant bosses surrounded by circles of nine smaller bosses. Three of the larger, have irregular incised line engraving. The bosses are relatively low profile with gentle, less defined definition between. Over 400 examples of this type of object are found in [Scotland](https://www.geonames.org/2638360/scotland.html), [Britain](http://www.geonames.org/2635167/united-kingdom-of-great-britain-and-northern-ireland.html) and [Ireland](https://www.geonames.org/countries/IE/ireland.html) have produced examples in dateable contexts from the [Late Neolithic](http://n2t.net/ark:/99152/p0qhb665959) to the [Iron Age](http://n2t.net/ark:/99152/p0kh9dsj33x). [More](https://tinyurl.com/mre4zwb).