File:Medieval Biconical Spindle Whorl (FindID 626037).jpg
Original file (1,674 × 1,282 pixels, file size: 798 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg)
Captions
Summary
[edit]Medieval Biconical Spindle Whorl | |||
---|---|---|---|
Photographer |
Lincolnshire County Council, Alastair Willis, 2014-07-17 18:04:47 |
||
Title |
Medieval Biconical Spindle Whorl |
||
Description |
English: A lead medieval (AD c.1200-c.1500) biconical spindle whorl. Overall, the object measures 27.6mm long, 25.2mm wide and 10.4mm thick. It weighs 26.89g. Both sides are decorated with an irregular pattern of raised dots and lines. The central perforation measures 11.2mm long and 10.0mm wide.
Lead weights like these are common finds, but only rarely from excavated contexts which is why date and origin are difficult to pinpoint. Decorated lead-alloy weights are very rare finds in excavations, but are often found by metal detectorists. They are usually biconical or cylindrical in shape and are decorated on both faces with raised dots and radiating lines or zig-zag ribs. They have been found in ploughsoil over the site of Roman buildings, and in an excavated context dating from the 13th to the 15th century at an Austin Friary (Geake 2001). It is thus very difficult to date the decorated lead weights, and it seems that they could have been in use at any time between the Roman and Late Medieval periods. Helen Geake writes: "Dating of lead whorls is difficult. The drop spindle with which they were used continued in use until the end of the medieval period in London and Winchester (Egan 1998, "The Medieval Household: Daily Living c1150 - c1450"; and Biddle, 1990, "Object and Economy in Medieval Winchester"), and for perhaps a century longer in Norfolk (Margeson, 1993, "Norwich Households: Medieval and Post Medieval finds from Norwich Survey Excavations 1971 - 78"). The excavated assemblage from Winchester contains one lead whorl from a mid to late 10th century context." Undecorated spindle whorls can therefore date from the Roman, Early Medieval or Medieval periods. It has been pointed out that the weight of a spindle whorl is suggestive of the thickness of yarn produced, with lighter spindle whorls (3 - 5 grams) being used for spinning cotton and the heavier ones (30 - 35 grams) for spinning wool (Margeson 1993, 184). |
||
Depicted place | (County of findspot) Lincolnshire | ||
Date | MEDIEVAL | ||
Accession number |
FindID: 626037 Old ref: LIN-571202 Filename: LIN-571202.jpg |
||
Credit line |
|
||
Source |
https://finds.org.uk/database/ajax/download/id/477119 Catalog: https://finds.org.uk/database/images/image/id/477119/recordtype/artefacts archive copy at the Wayback Machine |
||
Permission (Reusing this file) |
Attribution-ShareAlike License version 4.0 (verified 29 November 2020) |
Licensing
[edit]- You are free:
- to share – to copy, distribute and transmit the work
- to remix – to adapt the work
- Under the following conditions:
- attribution – You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use.
- share alike – If you remix, transform, or build upon the material, you must distribute your contributions under the same or compatible license as the original.
File history
Click on a date/time to view the file as it appeared at that time.
Date/Time | Thumbnail | Dimensions | User | Comment | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
current | 11:07, 20 January 2017 | 1,674 × 1,282 (798 KB) | Fæ (talk | contribs) | Portable Antiquities Scheme, LIN, FindID: 626037, page 1134, batch count 1121 |
You cannot overwrite this file.
File usage on Commons
The following page uses this file:
Metadata
This file contains additional information such as Exif metadata which may have been added by the digital camera, scanner, or software program used to create or digitize it. If the file has been modified from its original state, some details such as the timestamp may not fully reflect those of the original file. The timestamp is only as accurate as the clock in the camera, and it may be completely wrong.
Orientation | Normal |
---|---|
Horizontal resolution | 180 dpi |
Vertical resolution | 180 dpi |
Software used | Adobe Photoshop Elements 7.0 Windows |
File change date and time | 18:03, 17 July 2014 |
Color space | sRGB |
Image width | 1,674 px |
Image height | 1,282 px |
Date and time of digitizing | 18:57, 17 July 2014 |
Date metadata was last modified | 19:03, 17 July 2014 |