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Description: | A slightly incomplete decorated cast lead object, possibly a spindle whorl. The object is broadly circular in plan, although there has been some damage and loss of material at the outer perimeter. There is a broadly circular tapering perforation at the centre, although the walls have been pressed out into the void in two places on one side. In profile, the object widens gradually towards the flat centre, and it has a raised and curved circumference. The object has a maximum diameter of 37.5mm, a maximum thickness of mm and it weighs 50.56g.
The object has a light brown/gray surface. Both sides are decorated with a ring of raised pellets between the central perforation and the circumference. On one side these pellets are set within annulets. On the other side there appears to be a star formed by raised ??/?? and ??\?? designs running between the circumference and the perimeter.
These weighs are not yet completely understood. It is possible they could have been spindle whorls. At the Austin Friary in Leicester (see Mellor and Pearce, 1981), a decorated whorl was found, still on its spindle, in a 13th to 15th century context. However, Geake (2001, p66) states: ??Dating of lead whorls is difficult. The drop spindle with which they were used continued in use until the end of the Medieval period in London and Winchester (Egan, 1998, ??The Medieval Household: Daily Living c1150 ?? c1450??, 255-261; and Biddle, 1990, ??Object and Economy in Medieval Winchester??), and for perhaps a century longer in Norfolk (Margeson, 1993, ??Norwich Households: Medieval and Post Medieval finds from Norwich Survey Excavations 1971 ?? 78??,184-5).?? She adds that, in Cottam in East Yorkshire, detectorists found decorated whorls in ploughsoil over the site of Roman buildings (Geake, 2001, p66). | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Slarke, Duncan - Portable Antiquities Scheme | Identifier: | http://www.findsdatabase.org.uk/hms/pas_... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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