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Description: | Shale spindle whorl, circular in plan and ovate in profile and in section, with an off-set circular hole, 6 mm in diameter. Simple undecorated spindle whorls such as this one are more often excavated from sites dating from the Romano-British period in Cornwall, rather than from the Iron Age when they are often richly decorated.Quinnell (2004) illustrates a similar shale example from Trethurgy, St. Austell, on page 143, Fig.68, No.27, which is dated from the 3rd to the 4th century AD.
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