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-38F614
Object type: SPINDLE WHORL
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval lead alloy spindle whorl, plano-convex. Diameter 30mm. Height 13mm. Perforation diameter 9mm. Weighing 45.63g.
Created on: Thursday 28th June 2007
Last updated: Monday 21st March 2016
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Runhall', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-1C3DC7
Object type: SPINDLE WHORL
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval circular lead spindle whorl with straight-sided central hole, diameter 12 mm. Decorated with five projecting lozengiform bosses separated by groups of vertical ribs, some of which roughly follow the outline of each lozenge. The circumference is followed by a pronounced casting flash. Diameter 26.5mm. Height 15mm. Weighing 42.25g, 1.4905oz. Similar examples have been recorded from King's Lynn (HER 36070), Kenninghall (HER 39262) and Upwell (HER 41359, NMS-6ADF54). See NARC-5D8EAB for a list of other examples on this database. 14th - early 16th century.
Created on: Thursday 2nd August 2007
Last updated: Wednesday 8th July 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Stody', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: HAMP-3E2E07
Object type: SPINDLE WHORL
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A circular cast lead-alloy artefact, probably a spindle whorl. The whorl has a flat biconical section, with each cone truncated by the central perforation for attachment. The whorl is 29.75mm in diameter at its centre, 12.05mm thick, and the circular perforation for attaching to the spindle is 9.5mm in diameter, tapering slightly to 8.2mm. The upper face of the whorl is decorated with irregular tapering double ribs which radiate out. Within each pair of ribs there tends to be a pellet; there is a further pellet in the field between two of the pairs of ribs. On the lower face the decora…
Created on: Tuesday 28th August 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NMS-3F0262
Object type: SPINDLE WHORL
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval lead spindle whorl of flattened bi-convex section. Both sides decorated in counter-relief with a ring of zig-zag and a pellet in each outer space. Diameter 32mm. Thickness 8mm. Perforation diameter 10mm. Weighing 44.21g / 1.56g. A roughly similar example was excavated from an early 16th-century context at the Augustinian Friary, Leicester, complete with its wooden spindle (Mellor and Pierce 1981, 139-40, fig.51 no.71). It is possible that the object was residual, but it is unlikely to have been very ancient when deposited in the context, in view of its completeness.
Created on: Tuesday 28th August 2007
Last updated: Monday 18th April 2016
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Feltwell', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-FE59C8
Object type: SPINDLE WHORL
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval lead spindle-whorl, cast biconvex (diameter 30mm) relief decoration on both faces comprises four pairs of lines radiating from central perforation with letters between (possibly T C O I), weighs 31.08g, 1.10oz. Similar to an example from an early 16th-century context at the Augustinian Friary, Leicester, complete with its wooden spindle (Mellor and Pierce 1981, 139-40, fig.51 no.71). It is possible that the object was residual, but it is unlikely to have been very ancient when deposited in the context, in view of its completeness.
Created on: Thursday 6th September 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Mattishall', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-186AF1
Object type: SPINDLE WHORL
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval lead spindle-whorl, biconical (diameter 33mm) decorated with radiating lines alternating with pellets on one face and radiating lines and mesh of oblique cross-hatched lines on the other face and central perforation, weighs 62.69g, 2.21oz. Cf. similarly elaborate example from Mellor and Pearce (1981), fig.51, no.71.
Created on: Wednesday 5th November 2008
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Foulsham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-01B335
Object type: SPINDLE WHORL
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Two biconical Medieval lead spindle whorls with moulded counter-relief decoration: - One side of the carination undecorated, the other with rather clumsy straight and curving lines forming shapes, some approximating, probably quite fortuitously, to letters, such as S, b and m. Diameter 28mm. Thickness 17mm. Diameter of perforation 10mm. Weight 1.9545oz / 455.42g. - One side of the carination decorated with two rings of pellets, the other with radiating lines and some oblique and transverse lines. Diameter 28mm. Thickness 9mm. Diameter of perforation 10mm. Weight 1.2090oz / 34.27g…
Created on: Friday 28th November 2008
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Reepham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-D88695
Object type: SPINDLE WHORL
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Lead spindle-whorl, flattened biconical (diameter 29mm) with pseudo-letters alternating with pairs of radiating lines on both faces around central perforation. Weighs 30.47 g, 1.0750 oz. Similar to an example from an early 16th-century context at the Augustinian Friary, Leicester, complete with its wooden spindle (Mellor and Pierce 1981, 139-40, fig.51 no.71). It is possible that the object was residual, but it is unlikely to have been very ancient when deposited in the context, in view of its completeness.
Created on: Tuesday 21st April 2009
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Geldeston', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-A8C280
Object type: SPINDLE WHORL
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A lead spindle-whorl, biconvex in shape (diameter 26mm), with a line of lozengiform bosses around the outer edge, and a central perforation, weighs 43.93g, 1.55oz. Cf. elaborate example in Mellor and Pearce (1981), fig.51, no.71.
Created on: Wednesday 13th May 2009
Last updated: Wednesday 24th July 2013
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Dunton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-16CA21
Object type: SPINDLE WHORL
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A cast lead spindle whorl, D-sectioned with a central hole and six lozengiform knops on the outside. Faint longitudinal ribs. Diameter 22.5mm, height 14mm. Weight 22.8g / 351.4gn.
Created on: Monday 18th May 2009
Last updated: Saturday 14th January 2017
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'West Dereham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-DF40E7
Object type: SPINDLE WHORL
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A decorated medieval lead biconical spindle whorl, one face with radiating slightly oblique lines and possible pseudo lettering, the other face with slight and obscure curvilinear decoration. It weighs 47.14 g, or 1.6625 oz. It is similar to an example from Meols (Griffiths et al. 2007 no. 2188) and one from an early 16th-century context at the Augustinian Friary, Leicester, complete with its wooden spindle (Mellor and Pierce 1981, 139-40, fig.51 no.71). It is possible that the object was residual, but it is unlikely to have been very ancient when deposited in the context, in view of …
Created on: Thursday 7th October 2010
Last updated: Thursday 7th October 2010
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Fransham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-452196
Object type: SPINDLE WHORL
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval lead spindle whorl of low truncated conical form. Diameter 17 – 19mm. Height 15.5mm. Perforation diameter 11mm. Weighing 2.273oz / 64.42g
Created on: Saturday 2nd February 2008
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Mileham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-F8AC94
Object type: SPINDLE WHORL
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval lead spindle whorl, deep plano-convex. Diameter 26mm. Height 11mm. Hole diameter 9.5 – 12mm. Weighing 43.96g.
Created on: Tuesday 16th September 2008
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Hoe', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-5D24F1
Object type: SPINDLE WHORL
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval lead spindle-whorl, flattened biconvex with central perforation with cast decoration in relief on both sides comprising on one face four possible two letters I and two obscure letters between four pairs of radiating lines and on the other face an M and three obscure letters between four pairs of radiating lines. Weight 34.27g, 1.21oz.
Created on: Monday 30th April 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Stokesby with Herringby', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: NMS-0E17E8
Object type: SPINDLE WHORL
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Late Saxon to post-medieval lead spindle whorl, 11th - 16th century, conical, diameter 18mm, thickness 12mm, hole diameter 5 - 7mm, weight 17.90g. …
Created on: Friday 15th April 2016
Last updated: Friday 15th April 2016
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NMS-6ADF54
Object type: SPINDLE WHORL
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval circular lead spindle whorl, diameter 27mm, height 16mm, with straight-sided central hole, diameter 10mm. Decorated with five projecting lozengiform bosses separated by groups of vertical ribs, some of which roughly follow the outline of each lozenge. The circumference is followed by a pronounced casting flash. Weighing 42.35g, 1.49oz. Cf. almost identical examples from Kenninghall (HER 39262) weighing 37.58g / 1.32oz, and King's Lynn (HER 36070). See NMS-1C3DC7 and NARC-5D8EAB for lists of other examples on this database. 14th - early 16th century.
Created on: Wednesday 6th December 2006
Last updated: Wednesday 23rd September 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Upwell', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-CA1F02
Object type: SPINDLE WHORL
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval biconical lead spindle whorl with moulded counter-relief decoration. One side of the carination undecorated, the other with rather clumsy straight and curving lines forming shapes, some approximating, probably quite fortuitously, to letters, such as S, b and m. Diameter 28mm. Thickness 17mm. Diameter of perforation 10mm. Weight 1.9545oz / 455.42g.
Created on: Tuesday 16th January 2007
Last updated: Wednesday 26th February 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Reepham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-C341B2
Object type: SPINDLE WHORL
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval/Post Medieval Lead spindle-whorl, discoidal (diameter 24mm) with ribs radiating from collar around central perforation on one face and five slipped trefoils with obliquely angled stalks and collar around central perforation on other face, weighs 36.34g, 1.28oz. Cf. similarly elaborate example from an early 16th century context at the Augustinian Friary, Leicester, complete with its wooden spindle (Mellor and Pierce 1981, 139-40, fig.51 no.71). It is possible that the object was residual, but it is unlikely to have been very ancient when deposited in the context, in view of it…
Created on: Wednesday 21st February 2007
Last updated: Monday 18th April 2016
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Great Dunham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-9E1332
Object type: SPINDLE WHORL
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval Lead spindle whorl, conical with central perforation, crudely decorated with twin lines enclosing oblique lines in running zig-zag, weighs 29.23g, 1.03oz.
Created on: Wednesday 8th February 2006
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Elsing', grid reference and parish protected.