File:Anglo-Saxon stone spindle whorl, reverse (FindID 79324).jpg
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editAnglo-Saxon stone spindle whorl, reverse | |||
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Northamptonshire County Council, Tom Brindle, 2004-10-29 14:59:31 |
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Title |
Anglo-Saxon stone spindle whorl, reverse |
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Description |
English: A plano-convex spindlewhorl of sandstone. The spindlewhorl is quite large at 40 mm in diameter. It's central perforation measures 11 in diameter wide at the domed top and 12 mm in diameter at the flat bottom. The spindle whorl is decorated with two rows of concentric ring and dot decoration; the first row circling the perforation at the top consists of 6 ring and dots, and below this the other row consists of 16. The spindle whorl has been slightly damaged on the bottom. The heavy weight of the spindle whorl (33 grams) suggests that this whorl was used in spinning a heavy garment, probably wool. The only other examples that I have seen of stone spindle whorls decorated with ring and dot decoration are thought to be Anglo-Saxon in date and are illustrated in West, 'A Corpus of Anglo-Saxon Material From Suffolk' (1998, page 175; figure 57.3)and (a less similar example, but still with the ring and dots) Leahy 'Anglo-Sacon Crafts' (2003, page 65; figure 32E). |
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Depicted place | (County of findspot) Northamptonshire | ||
Date | between 410 and 1066 | ||
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FindID: 79324 Old ref: NARC-242448 Filename: NARC-242448rev.jpg |
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https://finds.org.uk/database/ajax/download/id/41222 Catalog: https://finds.org.uk/database/images/image/id/41222/recordtype/artefacts archive copy at the Wayback Machine Artefact: https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/79324 |
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Attribution-ShareAlike License version 4.0 (verified 30 November 2020) | ||
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Object location | 52° 11′ 40.2″ N, 0° 54′ 02.31″ W | View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMap | 52.194500; -0.900643 |
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