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Description: | A lead alloy discoidal Spindle Whorl with an off-set circular central hole. It is undecorated, so impossible to date closely. Its form suggests a date range of late Iron Age to Post Medieval (400 BC - AD 1600), but the other finds from the area and the small central aperture (about 6mm diameter) may suggest a Roman date of about AD 43 - 410 (Walton Rogers, 2007, p23 -24). The whorl has a shallow 0.5mm deep groove running around the center hole on one side. The sides are smooth with rounded corners. There is no decoration inside the central hole which is not prefectly centralised (off-set by approximately 2mm). The whorl is 27mm indiameter, 8mm thick and weighs 27g. It has an even cream coloured patina.The whorl is similar in form to BH-374F34, a ceramic, and thus Roman, example. It is also very similar to SWYOR-C78373 which is a closer parallel, being lead alloy.
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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