Spindle Whorls
This category includes disks with a pierced hole used for adding weight to a spindle.
This object is a disk or spherical object fitted onto spindle to increase and maintain speed of spin.
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Object | U Number | Museum Number (UPM Date Reg Number) | Museum Number (BM Registration Number) | Museum Number (UPM B-number) | Description (Catalog Card) |
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![]() | 517 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Spindle whorl of black steatite. |
![]() | 668 | (none) | (none) | (none) | spindle whorl pebble. |
![]() | 2508 | (none) | 1927,1003.64 | (none) | Spindle whorl. Black steatite. [drawing 1:1] |
![]() | 8301 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Shell roundel. Carved as a flower rosette with 8 petals of which 5 are marked with engraved circles: the edge is serrated. The whole is slightly convex: a hole through the center. [drawing 1:1] |
![]() | 8363 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Spindle whorl of glazed frit, color now bleached. Plain domed top. |
9777A | (none) | (none) | B17550 | [A-B] Spindles A pair Silver spindles with lapis whorls both very slender | |
![]() | 9777B | (none) | (none) | (none) | [A-B] Spindles a pair Silver spindles with lapis whorls both very slender (broken into 4 pieces and whorl also separate.) |
![]() | 9848 | (none) | (none) | B17284 | Copper Spindle Whorl? Conical shaped and hollowed to admit wood, part of which remains. On top was found half of a bone cap vertically perforated. [drawing] |
![]() | 13704 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Spindle whorl. Half of ... of pink stone, (steatite), polished; the top slightly convex. [drawing] |
![]() | 13750 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Stone spindle whorl. Basic diorite(?) Usual plano-convex type. Not in catalog. [drawing] |
![]() | 14205 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Spindle whorl. Copper. Type IV. A. Broken in 3 pieces. |
![]() | 14946 | (none) | 1930,1213.145 | (none) | Spindle whorl. Of dark grey clay. Decorated with stamped dots. [drawing 1:1] |
![]() | 15456 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Spindle Whorl top. Hemispherical flattened. Black stone. [additional drawing on back of card] [drawing 1:1] |
![]() | 17047 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Spindle whorl head? Glass paste? Blue. Hemispherical. Perforated through center [drawing 1:1] |
![]() | 17683 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Whorl. Clay. [drawing 1:1] |
![]() | 18194 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Spindle whorl of dark steatite. With slashed pattern thus [reference to drawing] [drawing 1:1] |
![]() | 19129 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Spindle whorl. Shell Conical, with engraved lines and holes originally inlaid with lapis dots. [drawing 1:1] |
![]() | 8914B | (none) | 1928,1009.390 | (none) | [A] Handle? A handle of white steatite from which projects a copper rod: strung on the rod are 5 roundels alternately of white shell and black shale: on the rest of the copper rod traces of wood. With this were found [B-N] 13 shell objects like spindle whorls. Possibly the handle and thong-beads of an ornamental whip(?). [drawing 1:2] [drawing 1:1] |
![]() | 8914C | (none) | 1928,1009.389 | (none) | [A] Handle? A handle of white steatite from which projects a copper rod: strung on the rod are 5 roundels alternately of white shell and black shale: on the rest of the copper rod traces of wood. With this were found [B-N] 13 shell objects like spindle whorls. Possibly the handle and thong-beads of an ornamental whip(?). [drawing 1:2] [drawing 1:1] |
![]() | 8914D | (none) | 1928,1009.389 | (none) | [A] Handle? A handle of white steatite from which projects a copper rod: strung on the rod are 5 roundels alternately of white shell and black shale: on the rest of the copper rod traces of wood. With this were found [B-N] 13 shell objects like spindle whorls. Possibly the handle and thong-beads of an ornamental whip(?). [drawing 1:2] [drawing 1:1] |
![]() | 8914E | (none) | 1928,1009.389 | (none) | [A] Handle? A handle of white steatite from which projects a copper rod: strung on the rod are 5 roundels alternately of white shell and black shale: on the rest of the copper rod traces of wood. With this were found [B-N] 13 shell objects like spindle whorls. Possibly the handle and thong-beads of an ornamental whip(?). [drawing 1:2] [drawing 1:1] |
![]() | 8914F | (none) | 1928,1009.389 | (none) | [A] Handle? A handle of white steatite from which projects a copper rod: strung on the rod are 5 roundels alternately of white shell and black shale: on the rest of the copper rod traces of wood. With this were found [B-N] 13 shell objects like spindle whorls. Possibly the handle and thong-beads of an ornamental whip(?). [drawing 1:2] [drawing 1:1] |
![]() | 8914G | (none) | 1928,1009.389 | (none) | [A] Handle? A handle of white steatite from which projects a copper rod: strung on the rod are 5 roundels alternately of white shell and black shale: on the rest of the copper rod traces of wood. With this were found [B-N] 13 shell objects like spindle whorls. Possibly the handle and thong-beads of an ornamental whip(?). [drawing 1:2] [drawing 1:1] |
![]() | 8914H | (none) | 1928,1009.389 | (none) | [A] Handle? A handle of white steatite from which projects a copper rod: strung on the rod are 5 roundels alternately of white shell and black shale: on the rest of the copper rod traces of wood. With this were found [B-N] 13 shell objects like spindle whorls. Possibly the handle and thong-beads of an ornamental whip(?). [drawing 1:2] [drawing 1:1] |
![]() | 8914I | (none) | (none) | B16970.1 | [A] Handle? A handle of white steatite from which projects a copper rod: strung on the rod are 5 roundels alternately of white shell and black shale: on the rest of the copper rod traces of wood. With this were found [B-N] 13 shell objects like spindle whorls. Possibly the handle and thong-beads of an ornamental whip(?). [drawing 1:2] [drawing 1:1] |
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