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SPINDLE WHORL
Unique ID: NLM-1C930B
Object type certainty: Certain
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status: Awaiting validation 
Lead spindle whorl. Cast cylindrical whorl with a central moulded aperture of diameter 9mm, Walton Rogers form B. One side bears an intermittent series of fine and closely spaced radial lines which may be impressed, possibly from a small ribbed fossil such as an ammonite, while the metal cooled in an open mould. These marks confer a faintly vermiform segmented appearance. A fossil may alternatively have been used to form the mould. Patinated. The spindle hole falls at the upper end of the range which might qualify this as of Anglo-Saxon date. Walton Rogers' form B whorls occur in 8th-century contexts in Yorkshire, but only became common in the later 10th century (Walton Rogers1997, 1736-1739). Fossils are almost unavoidably disturbed from ironstone deposits underlying the find spot, and were perhaps regarded as significant in pagan Anglo-Saxon times, with particular interest in the North centred on Whitby, where they again occur in profusion (Meaney 1981, 113-114). Suggested date: Early Medieval, 600-1000.
Diameter: 23.5mm, Thickness: 8.3mm, Weight: 29.17gms
Class: Walton Rogers form B
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
Subperiod from: Early
Period from: EARLY MEDIEVAL
Subperiod to: Late
Period to: EARLY MEDIEVAL
Date from: Circa AD 600
Date to: Circa AD 1000
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Thickness: 8.3 mm
Weight: 29.17 g
Diameter: 23.5 mm
Discovery dates
Date(s) of discovery: Sunday 20th March 2016
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Other reference numbers
Other reference: NLM32175
Materials and construction
Spatial metadata
Region: Yorkshire and the Humber (European Region)County or Unitary authority: North Lincolnshire (Unitary Authority)
District: North Lincolnshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish or ward: Roxby cum Risby (Civil Parish)
Spatial coordinates
4 Figure: SE9114
Four figure Latitude: 53.61465305
Four figure longitude: -0.62588526
1:25K map: SE9114
1:10K map: SE91SW
Grid reference source: Centred on field
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 100 metre square.
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