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Description: | A circular, lead-alloy spindle whorl. One side is plain, the other is decorated with a simple pattern of raised lines radiating outwards from the centre, with raised dots near the rim between the lines. The surfaces are very abraded and the decoration is not clear. It is 30.9mm in diameter and 9.2mm thick. It weighs 39.73gm. There is a deep hollow in one side of the central perforation. Decorated spindle whorls are very rare finds in excavations, but are often found by metal detectorists. They are usually biconical and are decorated on both faces with raised dots and radiating or zig-zag ribs. They have been found in ploughsoil over the site of Roman buildings, and in an excavated context dating from the thirteenth to the fifteenth century at an Austin Friary (Geake, 2001). It is thus very difficult to date decorated whorls, and it seems that they could have been in use at any time between the Roman and Late Medieval periods. | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Cooper, Amy - Portable Antiquities Scheme | Identifier: | http://www.findsdatabase.org.uk/hms/pas_... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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