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SPINDLE WHORL
Unique ID: DOR-6227C5
Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow
status: Awaiting validation 
A bone spindle whorl. A domed spindle whorl with a slightly off-centre drilled hole (diameter 9.02 mm at the top). The hole has an hour glass profile. The spindle whorl has been made from a femural or humeral head (the ball joint of an upper limb bone) from an animal. The dome shape is the natural shape of the bone. The base is fairly flat, but there is a slight step part way across where the angle of cutting has changed when the ball joint was cut from the rest of the bone.
Date: Roman to Medieval
Dimensions: 39.57 mm x 37.17 mm x 20.95 mm
Weight: 15.38 g
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: ROMAN
Period from: ROMAN
Period to: MEDIEVAL
Date from: Circa
Date to: Circa AD 1500
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Length: 39.57 mm
Width: 37.17 mm
Thickness: 20.95 mm
Weight: 15.38 g
Discovery dates
Date(s) of discovery: Monday 21st May 2012
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Materials and construction
Primary material: Animal skeletal material
Completeness: Complete
Spatial metadata
Region: South West (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Dorset (County)
District: North Dorset (District)
To be known as: Compton Abbas
Spatial coordinates
Grid reference source: From finder
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 10 metre square.
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