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Description: | A cast lead weight, possibly a spindle whorl. The object is biconical with a perforation running through the centre. The object has an outer diameter of 24.9mm, and the central perforation is 8.6mm in diameter. The object is 7.6mm thick, and it has a mass of 20.5g. The object has a pitted brown/grey surface. One side of the weight is decorated with two raised concentric lines, with a series of raised ribs running between the two. The other side is undecorated.
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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