Spindle Whorl

Dublin Core

Title

Spindle Whorl

Description

A decorated stone spindle whorl with concentric ring of punched dots and central perforation, used as a weight for a wooden drop spindle. The weight helped give the spindle momentum in the twisting, or spinning, of raw wool fibers into yarn for later making into textiles. Dated 500BC-500AD.

Contributor

eulac3d

Type

Physical Object

Identifier

Date Submitted

31/01/2022

Extent

cm x cm x cm

Spatial Coverage

current,58.15501380014405,-3.706532988989352;

Europeana

Europeana Type

TEXT

Physical Object Item Type Metadata

Prim Media

132

Natural Cultural

Cultural

Collection

Museum: Timespan

Citation

“Spindle Whorl,” Stratus, accessed June 14, 2025, https://stratus.openvirtualworlds.org/omeka/items/show/133.

Output Formats

METS
atom
dc-rdf
dcmes-xml
json
omeka-xml

Embed

Copy the code below into your web page