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are now enshrouded. At anyrate, it forms a more rational 
working basis than mere guesswork. 
List oF STONE BALLS FOUND IN ASSOCIATION WITH OTHER 
HuMan WORKS. 
One (6 discs), found in Cairn Robin, Kincardineshire. 
One (7 discs), found in a tumulus on the farm of Budfield, in the 
parish oi Leochel-Cushnie, Aberdeenshire. 
One (6 discs) (Plate II., No. 8), found near Lochnagar distillery, 
Ballater, Aberdeenshire, ‘‘ on the top of Craigbeg, where three 
short stone cists were also discovered. The stone ball was 
found about a foot from one of the cists. Each of the cists was 
surrounded by a circle of stones weighing 5 to 15 cwts., the 
diameter of the circle was about 15 feet: these might probably 
be the retaining stones of a cairn which had formerly covered 
the stone cists.’’ 
One (6 discs) ‘‘ was discovered at Buckhall, Glen Muick, Aberdeen- 
shire, by labourers employed in making a new road, embedded 
in black mould, about three feet under the surface. This 
mould was contained in a scooped-out hollow in the rock, from 
6 to 7 feet in length by 3 feet in width, having much the appear- 
ance of a grave.’’ 
One (4 discs). with Bronze Age ornamentation, was found when 
digging a drain in the parish of Towie, Aberdeenshire. The 
ornamentation on the Towie stone is somewhat similar to that 
on Plate II... No. 7, but the incised spirals on the former are 
more artistic and elaborate. 
One (6 dises). found near the Roman road in Dumfriesshire (Plate 
i, Na. 9). 
Two from the Skaill Bay underground dwelling (already referred to). 
One (6 discs). found in the contents of a modern grave in the bury- 
mg graveyard at Achness (already noticed). (Plate II., No. 11.) 
Three from graves at Ardkeiling, Elginshire, two with 8 and one 
with 12 projecting knobs (already referred to). 
One (6 discs) in a cairn at Old Deer, Aberdeenshire. 
- One (6 discs), found near a stone circle in the parish of Urquhart. 
Morayshire. 
One (6 discs), found in a field at Muckle Geddes, near a half- 
demolished tumulus, Nairnshire (Plate II., No. 6). 
One (4 discs), found in a cairn at East Braikie, Forfarshire. 
One (6 discs). found in trenching at Kilpheadar, Sutherlandshire, 
near some faint remains of a chapel (Plate II., No. 5). 
One (6 discs), found when cutting peats in the Moss of Cree, Wig- 
townshire, ‘‘among the gravel at the bottom of the moss.’’ 
‘One (6 discs), found in a peat moss on the hill of Benicheillt, in the 
parish of Latheron, Caithness (Proc., S.A. Scot., vol. xv., 
p. 156). 
