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Description: | Cast lead, biconical, decorated spindle whorl. The surface of both faces of the whorl are decorated with raised pellets, chevrons and lines radiating from the central perforation to the outer edge. The decoration as a whole gives the impression of a sun on one face and a star on the other, when viewed from above. Areas of the surface have eroded away and the edge is worn in places. Within the whorl is a recessed notch, originally there to help attach the whorl to the spindle.
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.
Medieval ? Post-Medieval (c.15th-16th centuries)
Diameter = 29.5 mm
Diameter of hole = 10.4 mm
Thickness = 12.3 mm
Weight = 47.2 g | Format: | text/html | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ | Publisher: | The Portable Antiquities Scheme | Rights holder: | The Portable Antiquities Scheme | Subjects: | archaeology | Temporal: | 1400
1600 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Anna Tyacke | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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