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Description: | Crudely knapped stone disc, of unknown use mid nineteenth century or earlier. Possibly associated with hand loom use. A number of uses have been posited for these objects. One is pot lids, but they show few signs of burning or sooting or any effects of heat, and pot sherds would make better lids. However they all show a degree of wear. Anthony Pilling has posited a possible use, related to hand looms, as a weighted core for winding balls of yarn around them as part of a crude creel for making a warp. See notes below.Diameter 52 to 60mm, thickness 15mm.There are images of other stone discs from the Pendle/Thursden area attached. Similar discs were used from the C19 until about 70 years ago for a stone rolling game from Bradford to Pendle. At Wycoller, near Colne, they were placing bets on how far they would roll. It should be noted that they only used them for this purpose because there were so many knocking around. There has been no record that the participants knew of the original purpose of the discs, though I suspect they must have if their origin is post med. New ones appear to have been made for the game on occasion. Shaped stone discs have been found in apparent Roman and Pictish contexts elswhere in Britain. Their original purpose remains speculation.If anyone knows what these objects were for, it would be appreciated if they would share this information.
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