Rights Holder: Leicestershire County Council
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Unique ID: LEIC-45CD0A
Object type certainty: Certain
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Early Medieval lead alloy spindle whorl, 24mm in diameter and 15mm thick with a weight of 43.99grams. The object is plain, circular in form and sub rectangular in cross section and has a central hole 9mm in diameter. The form of the whorl matches Walton Rogers type A2 which she dates to 700-1100.
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
Period from: EARLY MEDIEVAL
Period to: EARLY MEDIEVAL
Date from: Circa AD 700
Date to: Circa AD 1100
Quantity: 1
Thickness: 15 mm
Weight: 43.99 g
Diameter: 24 mm
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Primary material: Lead Alloy
Manufacture method: Cast
Completeness: Complete
4 Figure: SK5412
Four figure Latitude: 52.70298707
Four figure longitude: -1.20228279
1:25K map: SK5412
1:10K map: SK51SW
Grid reference source: GPS (from the finder)
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 1 metre square.
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