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Record ID: CPAT-1D6951
Object type: SPINDLE WHORL
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Powys
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A grey, stone spindle-whorl decorated with incised lines radiating from the central hole (for the wooden spindle). It's condition is worn and one or 2 pieces have flaked away from the surface. Its overall diameter is 46mm, and the central hole is 10mm. Difficult to date, spindle-whorls having been used from prehistory up into the post-medieval period.
Created on: Tuesday 27th March 2012
Last updated: Thursday 10th January 2013
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Record ID: CPAT-5C2318
Object type: SPINDLE WHORL
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Powys
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This discoidal stone spindle whorl probably dates from the Iron Age and is typical of examples found at the Llangynog defended enclosure in Carmarthenshire, Wales. The disc is well formed and smoothed; it has two pairs of incised parallel lines forming a cross on one face. In each case, the lines tend to converge. One quadrant has an additional radial line. The lines seem to be too coincident to have been accidental and similarly marked stone whorls have been found in context at Meare Lake Village (Somerset). In one case, the resemblance is remarkably similar - see http://www.g…
Created on: Sunday 2nd August 2009
Last updated: Tuesday 19th April 2011
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Record ID: CPAT-348075
Object type: SPINDLE WHORL
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Powys
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A pierced thin disk of slate, a spindlewhorl with drilled, slightly off-centre, hole.
Created on: Thursday 10th May 2007
Last updated: Tuesday 13th September 2016
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Record ID: CPAT-3F2CE8
Object type: SPINDLE WHORL
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Shropshire
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Stone (or clay) spindle whorl with two concentric circles on each face and small central hole.
Created on: Wednesday 5th October 2005
Last updated: Friday 23rd September 2011
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Record ID: CPAT-7B4D00
Object type: SPINDLE WHORL
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Flintshire
Workflow stage: Published Find published
Stone spindle whorl.
Created on: Tuesday 4th May 2004
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: CPAT-7B3C03
Object type: SPINDLE WHORL
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Flintshire
Workflow stage: Published Find published
Damaged stone spindle whorl.
Created on: Tuesday 4th May 2004
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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