Spindle whorl

Details

• Title

  Spindle whorl

• Associated place

  Europe › United Kingdom › England › Gloucestershire › Cotswold › Fairford › Fairford Anglo-Saxon Cemetery (place of excavation)

• Date

  Early Anglo-Saxon period (Britain) (AD 400 - 650)

• Material and technique

  shale

• Material index

  inorganic › stone › argillite › shale

• Object type

  component › spindle-whorl

• Dimensions

  1.3 cm (height)
  3.8 cm (diameter)

• No. of items

  1

• Credit line

  Presented by Mr William Michael Wylie, 1865.

• Museum location

  not on display

• Museum department

  Antiquities

• Accession no.

  AN1961.160

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