Bone needle case. From BS 1965-71, Brook Street site, Winchester, Hampshire.

Bone needle case. From BS 1965-71, Brook Street site, Winchester, Hampshire.

Bone needle case

Post-medieval, probably 18th ot 19th century

Found during excavations by the Winchester Excavations Committee in the Brooks area of Winchester in the late 1960s

This lathe-turned object with bands of grooving has a screw thread at the top, for fitting a lid. For more information, see Professor Martin Biddle's (1990) book, Winchester Studies 7.ii, Object and Economy in Medieval Winchester, catalogue number 2532.

Bone needle case. From BS 1965-71, Brook Street site, Winchester, Hampshire.