Mr Cat

Hey folks, that's great, thanks so much for your input and ideas! I'm no materials specialist, and I'm unsusre of the difference between stoneware and ...stone, but it sure feels like a stone to me. I guess maybe I can find a geologist friend. There is a local historian round here in a small library/museum thing in the town, it's not open very often but I'll try and pop by there with it, it's very intriguing. I just love thinking about all the peope who might once have been playing with it, who, what and when I've dug up a lot of stuff in my gardening history but this is up there on the very short list of particularly cool stuff! Cheers

Hi folks! This is my first post, I'm no marble collector but I do love them and I'm here because I was gardening for a friend the other day and had to dig some fence post holes in their garden and dug up what I think is an old stone marble and would love it if anyone could tell me more about it as I've not much idea where to start and forums are always a good place in my experience The houses round here date from the 18th century, and there is an old monastery near by, and a distillery, which led to the building of this 'new burgh' to house the growing community, funnily enough called Newburgh, in Fife, Scotland. The monastary dates from the 12th to the mid 17th century (its active life, it's now a very much ruin) so there's a fairly wide range of dates to chuck in to the bag there... I've atached a photo and would love to hear anybody's best guesses of any more info about it Thanks folks!