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Record ID: DYFED-AE937E
Object type: SPINDLE WHORL
Broad period: PALAEOLITHIC
County: Ceredigion
Workflow stage: Published
Complete stone spindle whorl of uncertain date, possibly Roman to early Post Medieval, c. 100 - 1700. The spindle whorl is circular in shape with slightly convex faces. It is made from a fine-grained sandstone, now with ground surfaces. The spindle whorl is of sub-rectangular section. The perforation is central and is circular (4.76mm diameter). There is no surviving evidence of applied decoration to the surfaces. It has a grey patina. The whorl measures 35.42mm in diameter and is 3.90mm thick and weighs 21.2g.
It has been suggested that the weight of a spindle whorl is demonstr…
Created on: Friday 22nd January 2021
Last updated: Thursday 24th March 2022
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This findspot is known as 'Llansantffraed', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: DYFED-AD096C
Object type: SPINDLE WHORL
Broad period: PALAEOLITHIC
County: Ceredigion
Workflow stage: Published
Complete stone spindle whorl of uncertain date, possibly Roman to early Post Medieval, c. 100 - 1700. The spindle whorl is circular in shape with rounded edges and surface, save for it reverse which is flatter, possibly indicating a break (which does not appear to be fresh). It is made from a fine-grained sandstone, now with ground surfaces. The spindle whorl is of sub-rectangular section. The perforation is slightly off centre and is circular (7.96mm diameter). There is no surviving evidence of applied decoration to the surfaces. It has a white/light grey patina with some flecks of o…
Created on: Friday 22nd January 2021
Last updated: Thursday 24th March 2022
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This findspot is known as 'Dyffryn Arth', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: LON-E91584
Object type: SPINDLE WHORL
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Greater London Authority
Workflow stage: Published
Complete Medieval stone plano - convex spindle whorl. There is a small piece of damage to the whorl at the shoulder. It is has concentric turning lines that around the whole circumference in a very regular way. This whorl closely resembles that in Egan 1998: 258-9 fig 202:790.
Diameter 36.99mm, Diameter of hole: 9.34mm, Thickness: 18.08mm, Weight: 29.97g
Egan, G. 1998 The Medieval Household - Medieval finds from excavations in London. HMSO. London
Created on: Friday 2nd October 2015
Last updated: Tuesday 27th October 2015
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Record ID: CORN-9BE2F7
Object type: SPINDLE WHORL
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Published
Micaceous argillaceous shale spindle whorl, ranging from pink to light brown in colour with a sparkling surface from the mica inclusions. The whorl is oval in plan and flat in profile, with smooth parallel faces, and a slightly off-centre tapering depression in each face which do not meet in the middle and perforate the stone. On one face the depression is 2 mm in diameter and 3 mm deep and the other depression on the opposite face is 4 mm in diameter and 2 mm deep. The depressions have been deliberately drilled from each face but not completed so that the spindle whorl was never used…
Created on: Saturday 30th May 2015
Last updated: Wednesday 23rd September 2015
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Record ID: LANCUM-B0BEB7
Object type: SPINDLE WHORL
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Cumbria
Workflow stage: Published
An incomplete stone flat or discoidal spindle whorl, of Neolithic to Medieval dating (BC 3500 - AD 1900). Around 75% of the spindle whorl is present. Both faces of the spindle whorl are flat and undecorated; a circular perforation runs through the the centre, presumably for attachment to a wooden spindle (now missing). The spindle whorl is made from a fine-grained sandstone. The whorl is circular in plan and sub-rectangular in profile, with parallel faces. The central hole is sub circular in shape and has been drilled slightly off central, from both sides. The internal diameter of the…
Created on: Tuesday 19th May 2015
Last updated: Tuesday 14th November 2017
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Record ID: WMID-CA394C
Object type: SPINDLE WHORL
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Warwickshire
Workflow stage: Published
An incomplete stone flat or discoidal spindle whorl, of Roman to Post Medieval dating (AD 43 - AD 1650).
Around 50% of the spindle whorl is present.The spindle whorl is semi-circular, and rectangular in cross section. The central hole is sub circular in shape and has been drilled slightly off central, from both sides. The internal diameter of the hole measures 5.6 mm wide. Both the upper and lower faces are flat. No traces of decoration are present on either the upper or lower faces.
The whorl has a diameter of 55.1 mm, with a width of 29.8 mm and is 14.1 mm thick. It weighs 36.6 g (…
Created on: Tuesday 24th February 2015
Last updated: Wednesday 7th June 2023
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Record ID: PAS-611B78
Object type: SPINDLE WHORL
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Published
A stone spindle whorl of possible medieval date. It is of flattened biconvexform, higher in one half than the other. The circumference is also flattened. The fabric is fine grained and of light-grey colour. It features incised concentric decoration in the form neat concentric rings (turning lines) on both surfaces. The central hole measures c. 8.1mm in diameter. On the higher half the object has suffered a loss adjacent to the hole. The stone is calcareous and probably a siltstone/mudstone. Geoff Egan (1998, 255ff.) suggests that the cheaper, possibly home-made, ceramic and bone spind…
Created on: Thursday 19th February 2015
Last updated: Monday 23rd February 2015
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Record ID: HESH-BA7963
Object type: SPINDLE WHORL
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Shropshire
Workflow stage: Published
A stone spindle whorl probably dating to the later prehistoric to later post medieval date (3000 BC - AD 1700) made of a course sandstone. It is circular in plan and sub-rectangular in cross-section. The object has a regular hour glass shaped pierced hole through the whorl and this is set slightly off centre. The shape of this hole would suggest that it has been achieved by drilling from each side. The object has an even mid-brown patina. Egan (1998) states that spindle whorls were used from the Roman through to the Post-Medieval period and that the cheaper, possibly home-made ceramic…
Created on: Friday 30th January 2015
Last updated: Monday 23rd February 2015
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Record ID: NMGW-5BE81F
Object type: SPINDLE WHORL
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Wrexham
Workflow stage: Published
Stone spindle-whorl of uncertain date, Roman to early Post Medieval, c. 100 - 1700
The spindle-whorl is comparatively regular and circular (of 35.8 - 37.4mm diameter and weighing 27.8g) is made from a fine-grained, micaeous sandstone, now with ground surfaces. The spindle-whorl is of sub-rectangular section (13.9mm thick) with near-flat faces. The perforation is central and is circular (7.4mm diameter) with straight parallel sides. There is no surviving evidence of applied decoration to the surfaces.
Margeson (1993, page 184)[1] has suggested that the weight of a spindle who…
Created on: Wednesday 26th November 2014
Last updated: Thursday 4th December 2014
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Record ID: FAKL-6F6384
Object type: SPINDLE WHORL
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: East Riding of Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Published
Spindle whorl made from a medium grained, light grey limestone. Plano-convex with a rounded top and a flat base. Through the centre is a 9.6mm diameter hole.
Created on: Wednesday 20th July 2011
Last updated: Wednesday 20th July 2011
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This findspot is known as 'Barmston', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: FAKL-B13867
Object type: SPINDLE WHORL
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: East Riding of Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Published
Spindle whorl made from a buff coloured, shelly limestone, plano-convex with a 10.3mm diameter hole through its centre.
Created on: Tuesday 5th October 2010
Last updated: Tuesday 30th November 2010
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This findspot is known as 'Near Driffield', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: SF-9D0528
Object type: SPINDLE WHORL
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
A stone whorl, complete apart from a small missing fragment on one edge. It is biconvex with a central circular hole and measures 33.86mm in diameter, 24.44mm in height and is 35.48g in weight. The central hole is 10.60mm in diameter. One end has two worn circular grooves around it but no other decoration can be seen.
Created on: Monday 21st August 2006
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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This findspot is known as 'Fressingfield', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: LEIC-85F874
Object type: SPINDLE WHORL
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Leicestershire
Workflow stage: Published
Medieval stone spindle whorl, 31-37mm in diameter and 10mm thick. the object is in fair condition with a greyish patina and a weight of 13.20grams. The object has a rectangular setion and a central hole, 8mm in diameter. It is decorated on both sides with incised lines, One side has a zig zag effect whilst the other has random crosses and lines.
Created on: Monday 15th May 2006
Last updated: Thursday 7th May 2020
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Record ID: ESS-4470D2
Object type: SPINDLE WHORL
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Published
Worn, Limestone spindlewhorl, probably Anglo-Saxon. The spindlewhorl is plano-convex, having a flat bottom and domed top. It has a central circular perforation through its length. The object is abraded, but appears to have been undecorated. The limestone has a chalky white appearance. The spindlewhorl is 32.74mm in diameter, 14.32mm thick and weighs 17.92g. A similar shaped, though pottery, spindlewhorl can be seen in West, 1998, A corpus of Anglo-Saxon material from Suffolk, Figure 121, number 12. A similar stone example is recorded on the database as NARC-242448.
Though the use o…
Created on: Monday 5th December 2005
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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This findspot is known as 'Wicken Bonhunt', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: CPAT-3F2CE8
Object type: SPINDLE WHORL
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Shropshire
Workflow stage: Published
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: LIN-E0B3D3
Object type: SPINDLE WHORL
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Published
Bun shaped limestone spindle whorl. The weight has a centrally drilled hole 5.17mm in diameter. One of the openings has a smoothed curved profile and the other is angular.
Created on: Monday 1st August 2005
Last updated: Tuesday 24th February 2015
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Record ID: LEIC-6A06C1
Object type: SPINDLE WHORL
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Leicestershire
Workflow stage: Published
Early Medieval? stone spindle whorl, 36mm in diameter and 24mm thick. The object has a creamish patina and is circular in form and oval in cross section. It has a central hole, 10mm in diameter and has rounded edges. It is decorated with a series of inscribed ring and dot marks, 5mm in diameter, running in two lines around its centre.
Created on: Monday 20th June 2005
Last updated: Wednesday 20th May 2015
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Record ID: DEV-F30690
Object type: SPINDLE WHORL
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Devon
Workflow stage: Published
Spindle whorl or loomweight made of red sandstone. It is roughly made with a 15mm diameter pierced hole. Date is unknown.
Created on: Saturday 21st May 2005
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: CPAT-7B4D00
Object type: SPINDLE WHORL
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Flintshire
Workflow stage: 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
Damaged stone spindle whorl.
Created on: Tuesday 4th May 2004
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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