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SPINDLE WHORL
Unique ID: SOM-C0F331
Object type certainty: Certain
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status: Awaiting validation 
A fragment of a Roman spindle whorl made from a sherd of Black Burnished ware (BB1, from Wareham/Poole Harbour, Dorset) pottery, dating to c. AD 43-410. The Spindle whorl is slightly convex and is around 50% complete. It is semicircular in plan and sub-rectangular in section. There is an aperture drilled through what would have been the centre of the circle, now incomplete.
It has been made from a hard fired, black fabric with a pinkish-buff oxidised internal margin and surface, with abundant sub-rounded to sub-angular translucent quartz inclusions, <1mm, frequent flecks of mica and rare orange/brown iron stone, <2mm. The external surface has been burnished.
Length: 43.7mm, Width: 22.4mm, Thickness: 8.7mm, Weight: 9.53g.
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: ROMAN
Period from: ROMAN
Period to: ROMAN
Date from: Circa AD 43
Date to: Circa AD 410
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Length: 43.7 mm
Width: 22.4 mm
Thickness: 8.7 mm
Weight: 9.53 g
Discovery dates
Date(s) of discovery: Friday 1st January 2016 - Friday 1st July 2016
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Other reference numbers
Other reference: SCC receipt: 017417
Materials and construction
Spatial metadata
Region: South West (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Somerset (County)
District: South Somerset (District)
To be known as: Martock CP
Spatial coordinates
Grid reference source: From finder
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 1 metre square.
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