File:2044 Lead alloy spindle whorl (FindID 208597).jpg
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None, Kurt Adams, 2008-02-04 15:42:40 |
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2044 Lead alloy spindle whorl.jpg |
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English: Lead alloy spindle whorl diameter 28mm. Trapezoid shape in plan with a slightly off centre hole, eight knops are situated around the sides of the piece halfway down the slope.
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 c1150 – c1450”; 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. |
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Depicted place | (County of findspot) Gloucestershire | ||
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FindID: 208597 Old ref: GLO-7160B3 Filename: 2044 Lead alloy spindle whorl.jpg |
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https://finds.org.uk/database/ajax/download/id/164394 Catalog: https://finds.org.uk/database/images/image/id/164394/recordtype/artefacts archive copy at the Wayback Machine Artefact: https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/208597 |
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