Note 71 — LECTURE III. (October 24, 1882.) THE CELTIC ART OF THE PAGAN PERIOD.

Dr. John Alexander Smith has discussed this point fully in his exhaustive notice of these Stone Balls in Proc. Soc. Antiq. Scot., pp. 56-62. Dr. John Evans remarks that “it seems probable that they were intended for use in the chase or in war when attached to a thong which the recesses between the projecting discs seem well adapted to receive.” He also states that "these Scottish Stone Balls seem to belong to a recent period, as compared with that to which many other stone antiquities may be assigned."—Ancient Stone Implements, etc., of Great Britain, pp. 377-379.