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    • Lead spindle whorl dated from the medievil people
      • Andrew Ballantyne
    • 19-6-2019
    • Weight = 54g.
      • Edwin Lambert
    • 28-12-2019
    • Spindle whorls. The first is round in plan, and cast in the form of a shallow dome with one face flat, it has a straight sided round central aperture which is 5.0mm in diameter. The whorl is undecorated, although it has some concentric marks on the flat face probably caused by shrinkage during casting, and thickly covered in white patination. The thinness of the aperture may suggest a Roman date of about AD 43 – 410. The second is a complete lead spindle whorl or weight. The whorl is biconical in shape with a large, roughly circular hole through the centre. The off-centre hole could suggest Roman but it could be much later.
      • Stuart Noon
    • 1-10-2020

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  • 1 spindle whorl that is broken into 2 fragments

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  • Context: EPR_1001
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    • Kira Charley
    • 19-6-2019
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