Whorls, Weights, Plumb Bobs

This category includes objects that are pierced and used by hanging from some other object.

Objects: Whorls, Weights, Plumb Bobs Export: JSON - XML - CSV

U Number	Museum Number (UPM Date Reg Number)	Museum Number (BM Registration Number)	Museum Number (UPM B-number)	Description (Catalog Card)
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]
835	(none)	(none)	(none)	Cone. of dark brown stone. Broken below. A hole runs up the centre, and a second is pierced from the side to beyond the middle for a pin to make the cone fast to the peg running up the central hole. On one side scratches, perhaps relics of an inscription. [Handwritten note corrects type to plumb bob] [drawing 1:1]
8363	(none)	(none)	(none)	Spindle whorl of glazed frit, color now bleached. Plain domed top.
8802	(none)	(none)	(none)	Loom weight? Clay ring apparently containing sign: nigin. B. Type IX.
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]
8914J	(none)	(none)	B16970.2	[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]
8914K	(none)	(none)	B16970.3	[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]
8914L	(none)	(none)	B16970.4	[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]
8914M	(none)	(none)	B16970.5	[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]
8914N	(none)	(none)	B16970.6	[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]
8914O	(none)	(none)	(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]
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]