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Iron Age / Roman stone spindle whorl
Spindle whorl made from igneous pebble with hourglass perforation.
Stone 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
57.137/2
Find Information
Site Name: Dinorben, Parc-y-meirch
Collection Method: Excavation
Date: 1957 / Mar
Notes: from the excavation at the northern end of Dinorben hill-fort
Acquisition
donation, 30/4/1957
Measurements
Weight
(g): 54.9
diameter
(mm): 52.3
thickness
(mm): 14.0
perforation
(mm): 6.7
Material
Mudstone
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