Spindle whorl
Spindle whorls were part of a tool for spinning wool into thread and are found on archaeological sites from prehistory until the recent past. This one is made from a piece of stone and was found at an Iron Age site in Devon. It is decorated with three pairs of incised lines which would have appeared to move with the spinning motion of the whorl.
Object Summary
- Accession Loan No.
- 7/1975/1
- Category
- Antiquities
- Collection Class
- Devon archaeology
- Collection Area Region
- Northern Europe
- Collector Excavator
- Hull, P, Mrs
- Material
- stone
- Common Name
- spindle whorl
- Simple Name
- spindle whorl
- Period Classification
- Iron Age (800 BC-43 AD)
