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Description: | A complete cast lead-alloy spindle whorl of Unknown date.This whorl is sub-circular in plan and plano-convex in form. Its upper face is domed and the underside is flat. It has a central circular hole, 7.65mm in diameter and its walls are vertical and smooth. There is no indication of any decoration.This whorl is worn and has a buff patina.Height: 6.57mm; diameter: 21.57g. Weight: 9.94g.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 c. 1150-c. 1450'; 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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