Record ID: PUBLIC-E257B8
Object type: SPINDLE WHORL
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Lead cast weight or spindle whorl. It is a short cylinder in shape, with straight, slightly tapering outside walls with a curve at the top towards the very large central hole. The bottom is flat. The hole is tapered from 10.58mm in diameter at the bottom to 9.92mm at the top. There is a small protrusion into the bottom of the hole where the base of the whorl has been slightly damaged. Cream in colour. Diameter 16.87mm, thickness 8.65mm, diameter of central hole 9.92mm - 10.58mm, weight 10.7g. This shape is classified as Walton Rogers's type A2 (2007, 25), which is found in contexts…
Created on: Friday 1st April 2016
Last updated: Wednesday 4th May 2016
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NMS-DF3691
Object type: SPINDLE WHORL
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Medieval lead spindle whorl , plano-convex. Diameter 24mm. Height 16mm. Perforation diameter 10 - 12mm. Weighing 42.26g / 1.4905oz. Not closely datable.
Created on: Wednesday 17th January 2007
Last updated: Tuesday 8th September 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Barton Bendish', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-CA3933
Object type: SPINDLE WHORL
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Medieval biconical lead spindle whorl with moulded counter-relief decoration: 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. Similar to an example from an early 16th century context at the Augustinian Friary, Leicester, complete with its wooden spindle (Mellor and Pearce 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 conte…
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-24C057
Object type: SPINDLE WHORL
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Medieval biconical lead spindle whorl with cast decoration in relief. On one face ten radial lines and on the other with five saltires inconsistently alternating with radial lines (at one point there is a sequence of four lines, and at another three oblique lines. Diameter 26mm. Thickness 10mm. perforation diameter 9.5mm. Weighing 33.07g / 1.1665oz. 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…
Created on: Wednesday 28th June 2006
Last updated: Wednesday 9th September 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Foulsham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-F30B14
Object type: SPINDLE WHORL
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Medieval lead spindle whorl, bi-conical with central perforation, decorated with crudely executed relief decoration comprising six radiating triangular points of a star between dots on one side and five radiating triangular points of a star between dots on the other side. Diameter 29mm, diameter of perforation 9mm, weight 55.50g (1.96oz).
Created on: Tuesday 31st January 2006
Last updated: Thursday 3rd March 2016
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Outwell', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-3CA337
Object type: SPINDLE WHORL
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Medieval lead spindle whorl, cylindrical with one slightly convex face. Central perforation diameter 12mm - 16mm. Diameter 28mm, thickness 14mm. Weighing 1.814oz / 51.42g.
Created on: Friday 23rd September 2005
Last updated: Thursday 3rd March 2016
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Langham', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: NMS2265
Object type: SPINDLE WHORL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
U Plano-convex lead spindle whorl or weight with tapering central perforation, weighing 1.01oz (28.7g).
Created on: Tuesday 1st April 2003
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'SAHAM TONEY', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: NMS1815
Object type: SPINDLE WHORL
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
MED Lead spindle-whorl, cast, circular, convex sides with vertical striations between six lozengiform bosses, weighs 26.03g, 0.92oz.
Created on: Tuesday 1st April 2003
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'LONG STRATTON', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: NMS2523
Object type: SPINDLE WHORL
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
MED Lead spindle whorl, conical with convex sides and central perforation, weighs 21.35g.
Created on: Tuesday 1st April 2003
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'BUXTON WITH LAMMAS', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: NMS1494
Object type: SPINDLE WHORL
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
RB Pottery spindle-whorl made of slightly micaceous greyware body sherd, dia.38-40mm.
Created on: Tuesday 1st April 2003
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'CORPUSTY', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: NMS616
Object type: SPINDLE WHORL
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Lead spindle-whorl, flattened truncated biconical (i.e. carinated) in section, diam. 300mm, thickness 8.5mm, cast decoration on each face with in relief consisting of four quarters separated by pairs of radial lines, with a letter or pseudo letter in each quarter. On one face, clockwise: upper case I with casting flaw, pseudo letter, ?upper case I on side or ?H , e in Lombardic lower case . On other: upper case I, Lombardic lower case e, the same but lacking cross bar within, possibly H or I with casting flaw. Important because it is certainly medieval, to judge from the lettering. La…
Created on: Tuesday 1st April 2003
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'KILVERSTONE', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: NMS27
Object type: SPINDLE WHORL
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Circular spindle whorl, bevelled on both face with median ridge and large central hole. Crude raised dots on both faces.
Created on: Tuesday 31st October 2000
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'NORFOLK BINHAM', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: SF3589
Object type: SPINDLE WHORL
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Conical lead weight, probably a spindle whorl. It is very neatly made with a base 22 mm in diameter and a height of 14 mm. There is a central perforation which flares from 6 to 8 mm in diameter, so it would function perfectly well as a spindle whorl, but it weighs 27.39g (0.95 oz) so it could also possibly be a trade weight.
Created on: Thursday 28th September 2000
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'NORFOLK WEETING WITH BROOMHILL', grid reference and parish protected.