Spindle Whorl ...

A 3D model of 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-500...

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Main Author: cineg
Format: Dataset
Language:unknown
Published: Zenodo 2018
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Online Access:https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10296386
https://zenodo.org/doi/10.5281/zenodo.10296386