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Description: | A complete cast lead spindle whorl of Unknown date. Diameter 33.2mm, thickness 8.1mm. Weight 40.33g.The whorl is circular in plan and plano-convex in cross-section. The central circular perforation has a maximum diameter of 7.9mm. The surfaces are damaged by pitting resulting from corrosion and the edges are particularly damaged. Helen Geake, Finds Adviser of the Portable Antiquities Scheme writes: "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). The excavated assemblage from Winchester contains one lead whorl from a mid to late tenth century context." Whorls have also been found in association with Roman buildings. Undecorated lead spindle whorls can therefore date from the Roman, Early Medieval or Medieval periods.
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