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Description: | Cast lead, biconical, decorated spindle whorl. The surfaces of both faces of the whorl are very corroded but the decoration can still be seen as a pattern of raised pellets, within petal-shaped areas, defined by lines and chevrons, radiating from the central perforation to the outer edge. Diameter = 35 mm / Thickness = 20 mm / Diameter of hole = 10 mm / Weight = 56.22 g These weights, usually thought to be spindle whorls, are common finds in other regions of the country, but not in Cornwall, and were in use over a long time during the Medieval and early Post-Medieval periods. The cut-off biconical shape is distinctive and typical of them, as is the raised decoration, with variations using lines, chevrons and pellets more common than those with incuse decoration like the example still in place on a spindle in the Leicester Austin Friars excavation report, reproduced in the Portable Antiquities Scheme Finds Recording Guide as illustration 34. {Ref: Mellor, J. & Pearce, T., CBA Research Report No.35 (1981) Leicester Archaeological Field Unit Report: The Austin Friars, Leicester} Medieval - Post-Medieval (c.15th-16th century)
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