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Which 'Towie'?
[edit]Mentioned in:
- Carved stone balls #Materials / 2nd paragraph and
- Carved stone balls #Ornamentation / 4th paragraph.
In Towie (disambiguation) there are several articles mentioned.
Which one is meant?
Answer:
1st: The caption under the photo says "Towie in Aberdeenshire".
2nd: The main contribution in Talk:Carved stone balls/Archive 1 #"You don't say" / list elements "8" to "10" mention the same "Towie in Aberdeenshire".
Ping welcome, Steue (talk) 11:05, 5 July 2023 (UTC)
Function, my guesses
[edit]My first guess was: a ball for throwing:
- either in a game, kind of a forerunner of the British, and later American, Football
- or as a weapon.
But since I heard (in a TV documentation) that the Towie balls ( from Aberdeenshire ) are from a very fragile kind of stone, my guesses are:
- as a symbol of power, for the leader/king, and/or
- as a kind of ID ( Seal (emblem) ), for messengers ( Couriers or Messenger of the Court ), carrying messages from one king to an other king, as they were later used in combination with a sealing wax.
Re. other suggestions:
- as a weapon they would not be decorated.
- fishers would, very likely, not decorate their weights.
- in the working of hides:
taking a piece of leather and filling it with stones, sand or earth would be much easier/faster, even more so if such pieces of leather were available in ample quantity. - ball bearings for transporting larger stones:
- would, very likely, not be decorated; plus:
- ball bearings with knobs don't roll well, :).
Ping welcome, Steue (talk) 11:57, 5 July 2023 (UTC)
- The stone balls could have been possibly game pieces, such as dice.
- Dr. Vito Volterrra 2604:3D08:137D:7500:ED0A:8A60:BF3:C4DF (talk) 01:14, 19 August 2024 (UTC)
Balls found on MARS, are they similar to Scottish stone balls ?
[edit]https://telegrafi.com/en/mbeshtetesit-e-teorive-te-komplotit-thone-se-kane-gjetur-deshmi-te-nje-lufte-te-lashte-ne-planetin-mars-foto-video/ 96.244.240.204 (talk) 21:42, 2 November 2024 (UTC)
- Ah yes. Starts well: "Conspiracy theorists claim to have discovered a number of strange and wonderful objects on Mars...." Martinevans123 (talk) 22:02, 2 November 2024 (UTC)