Rights Holder: Leicestershire County Council
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Unique ID: LEIC-E2C551
Object type certainty: Certain
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Early Medieval lead alloy spindle whorl, 10mm thick and 25 mm in diameter and weighing 16.22grams. The object is trapezoidal in form and circular in cross section with a central suspenion hole 8mm in diameter. The object is in poor condition and apperas to be undecorated.
The form fits Rogers class A2 which she dates to 700-1100AD.
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
Period from: EARLY MEDIEVAL
Period to: EARLY MEDIEVAL
Date from: Exactly AD 700
Date to: Circa AD 1100
Quantity: 1
Thickness: 10 mm
Weight: 16.22 g
Diameter: 25 mm
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Primary material: Lead Alloy
Manufacture method: Cast
Completeness: Complete
4 Figure: SK4600
Four figure Latitude: 52.5958554
Four figure longitude: -1.32233524
1:25K map: SK4600
1:10K map: SK40SE
Grid reference source: From finder
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 100 metre square.
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