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Description: | Crudely knapped sandstone 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. This particular artifact is the only one that lends support to the pot lid theory. On one face there is what appears to be a circular mark resulting from exposure to the effects of fire. It may be that this is the exception that proves the rule. Without analysis, the cause of the staining is unkown and it may be organic and the shape a resilt of another circular object resting on the artefact. 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 c75mm, thickness 30mm, weight 231.5g.There are images of other stone discs from the Pendle/Thursden area attached to LANCUM-DCBBF5.If anyone knows what these objects were for, it would be appreciated if they would share this information.
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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