Find Spot record 7571 - Find From Land at Mile House

<1> Portable Antiquities Scheme, Various, Portable Antiquities Data Import, LVPL-8B8C31 (Digital Archive). SCH5212.

A stone spindle whorl which is circular in plan. The object has a central circular perforation which has been drilled from each side. The object is 34.34mm in diameter and 13.11mm thick. The central perforation has a diameter of 10.68mm. The object weighs 21.6g. It is dark grey in colour. Spindle whorls were used from the Roman through to the post-Medieval period. Egan (see 3) in his discussion about spindle whorls, comments that the cheaper, possibly home-made ceramic and bone spindle whorls were displaced by purposefully manufactured stone examples in the Medieval period, therefore this may indicate a Medieval date for this example. Egan illustrates thirteen stone spindle whorls which date between the mid twelfth to mid fifteenth century. Spindle whorls were used primarily by women and children and are a common artefact in their personal possessions of the Medieval period.

<2> The British Museum, Portable Antiquities Scheme Online Database, LVPL-8B8C31 (Web Site). SCH5176.

<3> Egan, G & Pritchard, F, 1998, The Medieval Household Daily Living c. 1150-c. 1450, p.225 (Monograph). SCH7679.