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MuseumsSite Name: King's Museum
Country: Scotland County: Aberdeenshire Type: Museum
Nearest Town: Aberdeen
Map Ref: NJ9391608216
Latitude: 57.164756N  Longitude: 2.10223W
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King's Museum submitted by cosmic : Carved stone ball from the Fyvie area. Was on display in the Marischal Museum. Whether it is on display in the new museum I am not sure. (Vote or comment on this photo)
King’s Museum lies at the heart of the University of Aberdeen's campus in Old Aberdeen. It moved to its new location in 2013. As well as being Scotland's newest museum, it may also be the oldest as its origins lie in a museum collection - formerly the Marischal Museum - established in King's College in 1727.

King’s Museum has exhibitions changing every few months to display these collections, some involving students and academic staff collaborating with the museum to bring recent research to a wider audience. With a service for schools, evening lectures and other events, such as the annual ‘Night at the Museum’, the museum is a place where objects and ideas are explored in ways that would have been inconceivable to those who have collected and curated the collection over the past centuries.

The museum is a friendly place, where passers-by, students, staff and tourists can drop in for a break; a place of stimulation and reflection in the middle of the busy campus.

Opening Hours: Monday – Friday 10am -4pm; Saturday 11am -4pm

Contact:
King's Museum, University of Aberdeen
Old Aberdeen Town House
High Street
Aberdeen AB24 3EN
email: kingsmuseum@abdn.ac.uk
Tel: 01224 274330

Official Website: www.abdn.ac.uk/museums

Previous displays have included '100 Curiosities' from the museum collection with each item selected by a different person. Interestingly, megalithic material did rather well with three carved stone balls, iron age glass beads, bronze age neck-ring, neolithic burial beaker, flint arrowheads, palaeolithic hand axe and a jadeite axe head all having been chosen for display.

The museum collection has a new virtual entry point at www.abdn.ac.uk/museums, allowing look up of individual items, searching by object type, location or key words. More than 125,000 items have been added to the on-line database from collections held at the former Marischal Museum, the Zoology Museum, the Anatomy Museum, Geology collection, the Herbarium, Scientific Instrument collection and Pathology and Forensic Medicine collection.

Some suggested searches are carved stones, pictish stones or picts, beaker, axehead, carved stone ball.

Half-ton Pictish Stone moved into place for the exhibition Crafting Kingdoms: The Rise of the Northern Picts - more details in our comments

Note: New Open Access ebook (and print book): The Circular Archetype in Microcosm: The Carved Stone Balls of Late Neolithic Scotland by Chris Stewart-Moffitt, details in our forum
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King's Museum submitted by dodomad : This stone is one of five early Pictish stones found in a narrow strip of land that lies between the rivers Isla and Deveron. Burial cairns were found nearby, and it has been suggested that the symbols may have been used to indicate who lay in the graves. Tillytarmont, where it was found, was probably a sacred place used for funerals and other gatherings, with the ‘tarmont’ part of the na... (1 comment - Vote or comment on this photo)

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King's Museum submitted by dodomad : This stone is one of five early Pictish stones found in a narrow strip of land that lies between the rivers Isla and Deveron. It is so large and heavy that it has to be moved by specialist blacksmiths, under the guidance of our Conservator. The blacksmiths are also making a new mount for the stone to rest on at King’s Museum. Photo copyright King's Museum Aberdeen (Vote or comment on this photo)

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King's Museum submitted by cosmic : The Old Town House - the new home for the King's Museum of Aberdeen University since 2013 (Vote or comment on this photo)

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 1.7km W 273° Lang Stane (Aberdeen)* Standing Stone (Menhir) (NJ922083)
 1.7km SSE 168° Tillytarmont 1* Class I Pictish Symbol Stone (NJ94280651)
 2.0km SSE 169° Marischal Museum* Museum (NJ943063)
 2.2km S 184° The Langstane* Standing Stone (Menhir) (NJ93770597)
 4.3km NNW 332° Whitestripes Henge (NJ919120)
 4.6km SSE 154° Tullos Cairn* Cairn (NJ959041)
 4.9km N 1° Dubford Standing Stone (Menhir) (NJ9400313096)
 4.9km N 1° Mundurno* Stone Circle (NJ940131)
 4.9km SSE 157° Baron's Cairn* Cairn (NJ958037)
 4.9km SSE 167° Tullos Hut Circles* Ancient Village or Settlement (NJ950034)
 5.1km SSE 152° Crab's Cairn* Cairn (NJ963037)
 5.3km SSE 166° Cat Cairn* Cairn (NJ952031)
 6.2km SSW 198° Tollohill* Ring Cairn (NJ91950235)
 6.4km SSW 202° Dunnicaer 1* Class I Pictish Symbol Stone (NJ91500232)
 6.5km SW 224° Friarsfield* Stone Circle (NJ894035)
 7.3km WNW 299° Dyce Stones* Standing Stones (NJ87481175)
 7.8km SW 226° Bieldside* Cairn (NJ88340280)
 8.0km WNW 292° Holy Well (Chapel of Stonyewood)* Holy Well or Sacred Spring (NJ865112)
 8.3km N 10° Potterton* Stone Circle (NJ9529716365)
 8.8km WSW 245° Blacktop* Rock Art (NJ85900455)
 8.9km W 262° West Hatton* Chambered Cairn (NJ851070)
 9.4km WNW 302° Tyrebagger* Stone Circle (NJ85951322)
 9.6km N 9° Hare Cairn* Cairn (NJ9550417656)
 9.6km NW 318° Dyce Pictish Stones* Class I / Class II Hybrid Pictish Symbol Stone (NJ875154)
 9.9km NW 318° St Medden's Kirkyard* Class I Pictish Symbol Stone (NJ873156)
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New Open Access ebook: The Circular Archetype in Microcosm - Carved Stone Balls by Andy B on Tuesday, 02 August 2022
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Chris Stewart-Moffitt (member ID Mustang) writes: My monograph on Neolithic Carved Stone Balls has finally been published and is available to purchase as a book and as a Free Open Access PDF download.

The Circular Archetype in Microcosm is the culmination of seven years research into the Carved Stone Balls of Late Neolithic Scotland. It is the first study of these enigmatic artefacts since that undertaken by Dorothy Marshall in 1977 and includes all currently known examples in both museums and private hands. Many of these artefacts have previously only been seen by museum staff and private collectors.

An online Photographic Database, Gazetteer and Master CSB Database is available to all book purchasers via the Archaeopress website bringing many previously unseen CSBs together in one place for the first time. Datasheets provide up to date details of finders, approximate findspots, materiality and the majority include scaled colour images and location maps which show their geographic association with other artefacts and structures.

As a result of this research Dorothy Marshall’s original typology has been revisited and a number of new types added to offer an up to date and revised classification/typology of these unusual artefacts. Following careful analysis, it is also suggested that it is possible to determine a number of individual craftspeople with a wide range of skills at work.

For the first time, a visual geological characterisation of the materiality of approximately a third of the corpus has also been undertaken leading to some interesting and surprising results enabling a more detailed analysis of their potential origins and the landscapes in which they were found. It further considers their potential relationship to monuments. Finally, it suggests that they were used as a unique and distinctive gestalt which represented the ideology of the people who lived in the core area of Aberdeenshire and that their unique morphology enabled disparate groups across Scotland with similar ideologies to recognise one another.

Chris Stewart-Moffitt is currently an Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Aberdeen.

Download or order from Archaeopress
https://www.archaeopress.com/Archaeopress/Products/9781803271262

Chris has kindly offered Megalithic Portal readers a 20% discount voucher on the publisher's price. You can contact him here. It's also very good of Chris to fork out out make it availably digitally as an Open Access download - this will be much appreciated by all stone ball researchers I am sure.
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Crafting Kingdoms: The Rise of the Northern Picts, to 31st May 2015 by Andy B on Monday, 16 February 2015
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Drawing on recent fieldwork from the University of Aberdeen’s Archaeology Department, this exhibition explores the origins of the Pictish kingdoms of Northern Scotland.

Objects on show for the first time include a recently unearthed Pictish silver hoard discovered during fieldwork at Gaulcross, and new finds from the excavations at Rhynie. On display from the University Museum’s collections are a beautiful Pictish silver chain and a carved stone depicting a sea eagle, along with loans of Pictish silver and other artefacts from Aberdeenshire Museums, National Museums Scotland and the British Museum. The exhibition also includes experimental reconstructions of Pictish metalworking by the Scottish Sculpture Workshop, and artefacts by Rhynie Woman artists’ collective.

The exhibition runs from 20 January to 31 May 2015.

http://www.abdn.ac.uk/museums/exhibitions/special-exhibitions.php
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    The Moving of the Pictish Stone! by Andy B on Monday, 16 February 2015
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    King’s Museum has been closed for slightly longer than usual for an exhibition change over and this is due to the logistics of moving a ½ tonne Pictish Stone!

    The stone is usually stored at the museum’s Collections Centre and is now being moved into King’s Museum where it will go on display for the first time since Marischal Museum closed in 2008.

    The stone is so large and heavy that it has to be moved by specialist blacksmiths, under the guidance of our Conservator. The blacksmiths are also making a new mount for the stone to rest on at King’s Museum. The Curator of Exhibitions, Jenny Downes says:

    ‘It is one of the largest items we have moved in recent years and it is exciting to have the Pictish Stone on display once more’

    The stone is one of five early Pictish stones found in a narrow strip of land that lies between the rivers Isla and Deveron. Burial cairns were found nearby, and it has been suggested that the symbols may have been used to indicate who lay in the graves.

    Tillytarmont, where it was found, was probably a sacred place used for funerals and other gatherings, with the ‘tarmont’ part of the name meaning ‘sanctuary’ and the ‘tilly’ element indicating a mound for assembly.

    The stone is on display at King’s Museum as part of the Crafting Kingdoms: The Rise of the Northern Picts exhibition. The exhibition runs until the 31st May – don’t miss out on a chance to see this remarkable stone!

    https://uoamuseums.wordpress.com/2015/01/12/the-moving-of-the-pictish-stone/
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Re: King's Museum by Andy B on Tuesday, 08 July 2014
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The exhibitions change at King's change every couple of months. Currently we have 'Victorian Time: Spirit of the Age' on show. This includes a number of prehistoric items as the exhibition theme examines how Victorian's viewed the past, present, and future. The next exhibition which will be opening in January 2014 will be the Picts and local archaeology.
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