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Description: | Shape: flat Decoration: radial lines
"Spindle whorls were placed at the bottom of the shaft of a drop spindle to help maintain the rotation of the spindle during spinning. They are often made of stone, although clay ones are known and wood or bone was also used. Drop spindles were in use throughout the Bronze and Iron Ages and into the Medieval period. This spindle whorl is fairly small and light. It is carved from slate, the edges and surface are smoothed and the central hole is cylindrical. It is decorated on both faces by nine incised radial lines. It comes from North East Scotland. The spindle whorl is typical of an everyday object in use over a long period of time. This is one of a number of decorated ones, probably dating from the Iron Age, when spinning became an important activity with the advances in weaving technology and development of textiles."
Author: Feilden,Rosemary Date: 1999 Purpose: SCRAN
Field collector: Rae | License: | http://www.abdn.ac.uk/historic/Copyright_terms_conditions.shtml | Publisher: | ABDUA University of Aberdeen, Marischal Museum | Rights holder: | 47718 | Source: | University of Aberdeen | Identifier: | http://calms.abdn.ac.uk/Geology/dserve.e... | Go to resource |
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