This paper examines iron age funerary globes and the relationship between them and the finds context. It also aims to identify what it is that constitutes a funerary globe. A research review is carried out on the topic, and it is evident that there exists a strong pattern in Lovö between funerary globes and certain categories of findings that are traditionally assumed to be linked to the female gender. The paper then continues by taking a closer look on the more recently discovered material from Bådstorp, and it is evident that the same pattern there is severely weaker. The funerary globes of Bådstorp can not be linked to female graves, and the pattern that this popular idea is based on can thus not be seen as a universal pattern. The paper also shows that while some deviant round globes of stone are categorized as funerary globes in Bådstorp, others are not. The different categories of deviant round globes of stone are listed, and the paper shows how all of these stones are materially related to each other.