WHAT IS THE GROOVED WARE?

A pottery style of the British Late Neolithic, widely distributed c. 2750–1850 bc. The characteristic vessel is flat based with straight vertical or outward sloping walls. It was formerly known as Rinyo-Clacton after two widely separated findspots (Clacton in Essex and Rinyo in the Orkney Islands). Throughout eastern and southern England, where it is particularly frequent on henge sites (Stonehenge

and Durrington Walls), it is decorated with shallow grooving or sometimes with applied cordons. A Scottish group, where appliqué cordons were much used in addition, is represented in Orkney at sites like Rinyo and Skara Brae. It is also found in settlement sites and in chambered tombs.

WHAT IS THE CARVED STONE BALL ?

CARVED STOEN BALL :Any roughly spherical or slightly lobate, artificially shaped, carved stones of the later Neolithic and found only in Scotland. The motifs are similar to those in megalithic art. Undecorated stone balls are found in other areas of the British Isles from around the 4th and 3rd millennia bc.