[HM] "Platonic Solids" - Paleolith. Scotland?

Robert Tragesser (RTragesser@compuserve.com)
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Browsing about on the Pythagorean shelf of a "New Age" book
store, I flipped through an outsized book I believe was titled "Sacred
Geometry" (published by something like Shambala Press). Therein it had
photographs of a complete set of the Platonic Solids, carved from stone
and were said to have been discovered in a paleolithic site in Scotland.
They were not polyhedra, but rather stone figures that clearly had the
symmetries of the Platonic Solids, but they were composed of demi-spheres.
As usual with such books, it didn't (seem to) have a reference.
Anyone?

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