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Description: | Incomplete cast lead decorated spindle whorl. The upper surface of the whorl is decorated with raised pellets, chevrons and lines radiating from the central perforation to the outer edge. Areas of the surface have eroded away and the edge is worn in places. The underside of the spindle whorl is missing, and it is difficult to make out any decoration, but it looks as if the whorl may have been plano-convex originally, rather than biconical which is more typical of this style of whorl.
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 = 32.6 mm
Diameter of hole = 10.7 mm
Thickness = 11.6 mm
Weight = 43.55 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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