Let me say at the outset of this thread, that the following theory is my own, and does loosely touch upon my personal view that Humanity has endured cyclic periods of high technology, followed by cataclysmic decline, but this has absolutely nothing to do with ET or aliens in any way shape or form, so if you are expecting such discussion, this is the wrong thread.

Many examples of mysterious stone balls, of all sizes have been found across the world.

Many of us are familiar with the huge stone spheres discovered in places like Costa Rica ad many other places around the globe, some almost perfectly spherical, others slightly oval in shape, with the largest examples weighing in excess of 15 tonnes.

The stone balls that are the subject of this thread however, are much smaller and the examples discovered so far are almost exclusively found in Britain. The Majority of these stones are found in various places in Scotland, and are mostly spherical, some are oval and others are neither, but share characteristics of both.

The are thought to have been created mostly by the Celts and have been dated by experts to be as old as 3000 BC, although some are thought to be younger than this with the creation of these stones continuously being produced up until the early Iron age.

The sizes are almost always around 70mm (2.75 - 3.0 inches) though there are some exceptions with some being up to 115mm.

Historians have puzzled over the use and meaning of these stones, and while many theories have been offered, none have been firmly accepted. Theories range from spiritual meanings, tools, tribal council meeting 'speaking stones', a form of currency, weapons etc.

Here are some images of the stones.



Some of the stones are not spherical at all, like this interesting example;





Some of the stones are highly detailed, with many different surface details, the carving of which may have been done when the stone was first carved, or was added to existing stones much later by different tribes, such as the Celtic symbols and intricate lines on some, like this one has;



Although most of these stones have been found in Scotland, just recently, a highly ornate sphere has been discovered in an unused rice field in Costa Rica, much smaller than the stones commonly found there and is highly reminiscent of some of the more ornate Scottish stones, as can be seen here;



Now, my theory as to what these things might actually be representative of, and how it all ties in with a long forgotten period of high technology in our remote history.

First and foremost, for me, these stone objects represent life and fertility.

I am going to include another series of images, which when i compared them to the images i have posted of the Petraspheres, or Neolithic stone carvings...almost blew my mind!

It was a 'lightbulb moment', which does indeed raise certainly interesting, although very unorthodox questions.

Are you ready for a 'lightbulb moment'?

Here you are;



What you are looking at Ladies and Gentlemen, are images of microscopic POLLEN. Mostly tree pollen in fact.

The resemblance to the carved stones is...uncanny and compelling.

And the 'T' shaped carved stone, that looked a little like a Neolithic hammer?



Pollen too.

Coincidence? Anything is possible, but the amazing likeness between 'Life and fertility giving pollen', and the carved stones being found in Scotland and elsewhere, is very strange.

The obvious question arises, if the stones are indeed representations of pollen, how could Neolithic people see microscopic pollen grains in order to carve them on the macro scale...which brings me back to the question of higher technology, dissapeared from history and the minds of Mankind many thousands of years ago, that modern science can no longer recognise.

Thoughts?

Cool thread. I hadn't seen some of those artifacts before.

I admit, the resemblance is uncanny, but I imagine coincidental. The artifacts found look like weapons to me, whether fired from slings or catapults.

I read that they are going to try to create a periodic table of reoccurring shapes. Shapes that seem to form over and over in this realm. Someone noticed that crystals can form in shapes that are almost flower like and they won some kind of award for their find....after being discredited and slammed up against the wall and fired initially. The shape was evident in some of the tapestry in India that people were making. It is possible that these pollen had an influence on the people that carved these stones.

We are influenced by what we sense and ape our creations to match what we sense. The pyramid shapes may have been created by the sensing of something that was pyramid in crystaline nature, possibly something in the water or in the food. Even pyramid shaped crystals floating in the air or possibly the atmosphere could cause us to build these structures. It is pyramid structures of minerals that form the sun halos. I guess this will never be known for sure.

I think you may be onto something there, the microbes in our body cause us to act a certain way as does the structure of the foods we eat. Maybe keeping in shape is more than we think

I don't know if that is a coincidence or not, but the resemblances are very uncanny!

Very nice job on finding this OP.

Those are bolo balls. They go on the ends of a bolo. A bolo is used for hunting. You spin it around and throw it. The balls wrap around the legs of your prey and stop it from running. As a kid I made many bolos and got quite good at throwing them. No mystery here. The grooves are for holding the stones in the bolo.

ETA: these a modern crafted examples made in emulation of stone age culture's examples

The resemblance is certainly uncanny! Interesting to say the least...

Well done. I need to come back to this after work to digest it more.

Has The Amazing Purpose Of Petrospheres AKA Neolithic Stone Balls Finally Been Discovered?,

I read your entire OP and while the resemblance is uncanny, you never at any point attempted to answer the proposed question in the title.

I get the idea that they resemble pollen but,
we are still left with the mystery as to what their purpose was.