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Iron Age / Roman slate spindle whorl
Spindle whorl made from a disc of ?slate? with hourglass perforation.
Slate spindle whorl from Dinorben Hillfort, north-west Wales. 300 BCE-400 CE. The same technology was used to spin wool for thousands of years.
Collection Area
Archaeology & Numismatics
Item Number
58.535/1395
Find Information
Site Name: Dinorben, Parc-y-meirch
Grid Reference: SH 968 757
Collection Method: excavation
Date: 1912-1922
Acquisition
Bequest, 22/11/1958
Measurements
weight / g:19.0
diameter / mm:42.2
thickness / mm:7.2
perforation / mm:4.9
Material
slate
Location
In store
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