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Description: | A ceramic spindle whorl fashioned from a re-used Roman pottery sherd. The pottery fabric is coarse and sandy and reminiscent of South East Dorset Black Burnished Ware. One surface is oxidised orange and the other reduced dark grey-black in colour. The reduced surface is burnished. It has been roughly shaped into an approximate circle measuring 25.17mm diameter, 6.96mm thick and weighing 5.52g. It has been pierced with a hole of 5.39mm diameter in the centre. | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Davey, John - Portable Antiquities Scheme | Identifier: | http://www.findsdatabase.org.uk/hms/pas_... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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