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Record ID: NMS-78699E
Object type: SPINDLE WHORL
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Decorated spindle-whorl made from chalk, probably of middle or late early-medieval date. The base is approximately circular and 31mm in diameter; it is decorated with a crudely made groove around the central perforation. The angle between base and sides is rounded, and the steeply sloping sides are also slightly convex. They are decorated with a series of irregular grooves, mainly roughly vertical but also some more oblique and some slightly curved. These grooves do not quite reach the base. Where the top survives, they do not seem to reach this either, but most of the top is now miss…
Created on: Wednesday 4th December 2019
Last updated: Thursday 9th January 2020
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Record ID: NMS-3E0685
Object type: SPINDLE WHORL
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Late Saxon fine-grained stone spindle-whorl, pale grey with ferrous staining, globular with flattened poles, probably lathe-turned. A small flake was lost in antiquity from the side. Cf. examples from Thetford (Dallas 1993, 121, fig. 132, nos. 4 and 5). Diameter 30.7mm, thickness or height 21.8mm, hole diameter 11mm decreasing slightly to the centre, weight 25.5g, mid 9th - 11th century.
Created on: Friday 15th June 2018
Last updated: Friday 15th June 2018
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NMS-78F5F7
Object type: SPINDLE WHORL
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Sandstone spindle-whorl of unknown date, discoidal (diameter 40mm, 14mm thick) with drilled, slightly splayed central perforation (10mm to 13mm). Weighs 36.60g, 1.29oz.
Created on: Monday 22nd September 2008
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Beeston with Bittering', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-C3AED5
Object type: SPINDLE WHORL
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Middle Saxon/Late Saxon stone spindle whorl, fine-grained pale-grey limestone plano-convex with central perforation within three engraved concentric grooves on the upper surface and two on the base. Diameter 35mm, weight 26.01g. Cf. Late Saxon example from Thetford (Rogerson and Dallas 1984, fig.148, no.4) and broadly similar but more deeply grooved Middle Saxon example from grave 28 at Harford Farm (Penn 2000, 29 and fig.94, no.4 and plate VI).
Created on: Thursday 17th May 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Outwell', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-F4A5E4
Object type: SPINDLE WHORL
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Late Saxon stone spindle-whorl, fine-grained pale-grey limestone, flattened sphere with central perforation and incised decoration comprising three simple crosses each within bordering line and then one cross above another evenly spaced around median band, with four cross-hatched triangles around perforation on one side and rather more random oblique radiating lines around the other side of perforation, height 21mm, diameter 29mm, weighs 23.19g.
Created on: Wednesday 10th March 2004
Last updated: Friday 15th June 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Tacolneston', grid reference and parish protected.