File:A Post-Medieval copper alloy spindle with pin. (FindID 973490).jpg

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A Post-Medieval copper alloy spindle with pin.
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The Portable Antiquities Scheme, Jonathan Davey, 2019-10-08 14:10:59
Title
A Post-Medieval copper alloy spindle with pin.
Description
English: A post-Medieval copper alloy spindle, with separately cast pin and iron axis bar.

This axis bar has become cemented by rust. The pin and spindle are threaded around this axis bar and are also cemented in place. The pin is triangular in shape tapering to a rounded point. It is flanked on the axis bar by the attachments for the spindle.

The spindle tapers from the axis bar through its length before it comes to an old break. The spindle has a bend in it located near the break. On the reverse of the spindle there is a makers mark which is unclear due to corrosion but ends in the letter K. The object is now mostly brown in colour with bits of orange and green corrosion in places.

The spindle and pin measure 36mm in length, with pin measuring 19.3mm from axis attachment to tip and the spindle 19.7mm from the break to the tube. The spindle starts with a width of 23.3mm going down to 6.3mm at the break with a thickness of 1.5mm. The object weighs 3.78g.

Whitehead (2003,96 and 98) shows a very similar spindle, type III on page 96 and no. 610 on page 98.
Depicted place (County of findspot) Bath and North East Somerset
Date between 1660 and 1720
date QS:P571,+1500-00-00T00:00:00Z/6,P1319,+1660-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1326,+1720-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
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FindIdentifier: 973490
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The Portable Antiquities Scheme (PAS) is a voluntary programme run by the United Kingdom government to record the increasing numbers of small finds of archaeological interest found by members of the public. The scheme started in 1997 and now covers most of England and Wales. Finds are published at https://finds.org.uk
Source https://finds.org.uk/database/ajax/download/id/1076027
Catalog: https://finds.org.uk/database/images/image/id/1076027/recordtype/artefacts archive copy at the Wayback Machine
Artefact: https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/973490
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