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Amgueddfa Cymru – Museum Wales
Irregulare bun shaped lead object with cylindrical perforation; perhaps a spindle whorl. The top has a number of shallow radial grooves.
Bone spindle whorl from Dinas Powys hillfort, south Wales. 450-700 CE. The same technology was used to spin wool for thousands of years.
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Site Name: Dinas Powis, Vale of Glamorgan
Notes: Cut X; Layer 1; Context 3W: Published as unstratified.
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