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Description: | Medieval/Post Medieval lead weight with central perforation, cylindrical but with slightly convex top. Height 22mm. Diameter 30mm at base, 27mm at top. Weighing 108.6g / 1676.2 grains / 3.831oz avoirdupois, so possibly for 4oz. Rather too heavy to be a spindle whorl: at Winchester. for example, the heaviest whorl, of stone, weighed 1.1.3g, while the next heaviest, of lead, weighed 67.5g. (Woodland, M. in Biddle 10990, 216-225).
Original Image | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/r... | Go to resource |
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