• Question: If marbles are not made of marble, why are they called marbles?

    Asked by georgiawheelerxo to Charlotte, Colin, Becki, Rick on 27 Jun 2013.
    • Photo: Charlotte Dalton

      Charlotte Dalton answered on 27 Jun 2013:

      I’m not sure! apparently the first marbles were made of clay and glass, marble has always been quite valuable though so maybe they wanted to make them from marble but it was too expensive so they just named them that instead 🙂

    • Photo: Rebecca Scott

      Rebecca Scott answered on 27 Jun 2013:

      Originally (back in Egyptian and Roman times) marbles were made of marble (or marble-like rock) but it was too expensive to produce them from this material and so people began making them from clay and glass and other materials…I guess the name just stuck.

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