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Unique ID: YORYM-FCAD23
Object type certainty: Certain
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A complete stone spindle whorl of uncertain date. The object is made of a soft, light calsitic stone which has been worked to be circular in plan with rounded sides and edges. A sub-circular central perforation is present and the whorl is undecorated.
The whorl is 44.2mm in diameter, 14mm thick and weighs 31.4g.
Spindle whorls were commonly used from the Iron Age through to the post-medieval period and are difficult to date with any certainty. Geoff Egan suggests that the cheaper, possibly home-made, ceramic and bone spindle whorls were displaced by purposefully manufactured stone examples in the medieval period. This would suggest that this example is medieval in date.
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Broad period: UNKNOWN
Period from: IRON AGE
Period to: POST MEDIEVAL
Quantity: 1
Thickness: 14 mm
Weight: 31.4 g
Diameter: 44.2 mm
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Primary material: Stone
Manufacture method: Hand made
Completeness: Complete
4 Figure: TA1761
Four figure Latitude: 54.031727
Four figure longitude: -0.215187
1:25K map: TA1761
1:10K map: TA16SE
Grid reference source: From a paper map
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 100 metre square.
Author | Publication Year | Title | Publication Place | Publisher | Pages | Reference | |
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Egan, G. | 1998 | The Medieval Household: Daily Living c.1150-c.1450 (Medieval Finds from Excavations in London) | London | The Stationery Office | p.255ff |