Unstratified post-medieval bone spindle and whorl from SJS 76-82, St John's Street, Winchester.

Unstratified post-medieval bone spindle and whorl from SJS 76-82, St John's Street, Winchester.

Spindle and spindlewhorl

Post-medieval or possibly modern

Found during excavations by Winchester Museums Service Archaeology Section at St John's Street, Winchester in the late 1970s

This lathe-turned, highly decorated object is the only one in the archaeology collections that comprises both spindle and whorl.

Unstratified post-medieval bone spindle and whorl from SJS 76-82, St John's Street, Winchester.