Find Spot record MCC487 - Anglo-Saxon? spindle whorl, Butt Road, Colchester

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Early Medieval spindle whorl of fired clay from Butt Road excavations in 1979, probable Anglo-Saxon date.

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Grid reference TL 99305 24820 (point)
Map sheet TL92SE
Non Parish Area COLCHESTER, COLCHESTER, ESSEX

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A doughnut-shaped spindlewhorl fired externally to buff/orange. The fabric has some organic tempering with calcite and haematite inclusions. Diameter 46mm, height 21mm, diameter of central hole 12mm, weight 63.06g. This whorl is probably Anglo-Saxon in date.<1>
Found in a modern pit (EF147) at the Butt Road Excavation, 1979.<2>

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  • <1> Monograph: Crummy, Nina. 1988. CAR 5: The post-Roman small finds from excavations in Colchester 1971-84. p.32, No 1927.
  • <2> Serial: Crummy, Philip. 1993. CAR 9:Excavations of Roman and later cemeteries, churches and monastic sites in Colchester, 1971-8. 9. p.163.

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Feb 3 2017 7:29AM

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