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Description: | A lead alloy spindle whorl. The whorl is discoid and rectangular in section but with a circular recess round the central circular hole on one face. There are some scratches on the sides and faces. It has a diameter of 24.86mm and is 7.8mm thick. The whorl is in fairly good condition with a creamy yellow patina.Helen Geake 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"; 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"). The excavated assemblage from Winchester contains one lead whorl from a mid to late tenth century context." Undecorated spindle whorls can therefore date from the Roman, Early Medieval or Medieval periods.
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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