This object is a disk or spherical object fitted onto spindle to increase and maintain speed of spin.

Objects: Spindle Whorls Export: JSON - XML - CSV

Object U Number Museum Number (UPM Date Reg Number) Museum Number (BM Registration Number) Museum Number (UPM B-number) Description (Catalog Card)
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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