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Spindle Whorl
A 3D model of a spindle whorl for spinning raw wool, made from a grey schist-like rock with 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. Physical object held at the Timespan Museum. Part of the Iron Age Kildonan reconstruction…
Creator
- cineg
Subject
- Cultural Heritage & History
- spindles (textile working equipment)
- archaeological objects
- Archaeological artifact
Type of item
- 3D
Creator
- cineg
Subject
- Cultural Heritage & History
- spindles (textile working equipment)
- archaeological objects
- Archaeological artifact
Type of item
- 3D
Providing institution
Aggregator
Rights statement for the media in this item (unless otherwise specified)
- http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/
Rights
- Digitisation funded by the EU Northern Periphery and Arctic Programme 2014-2020 through the “Connected Culture and Natural Heritage in a Northern Environment” (CINE) project.
Creation date
- 2019
- 2019
Temporal
- 500 BC - 500 AD
- Iron Age
- -0499/0500
Places
- Caen
Provenance
- 3D digitisation was done by Catherine Cassidy and Iain Oliver with archaeological assistance provided by Jacquie Aitken. ; Laser scanning
Identifier
- share3d:997
- share3d:997
Format
- glTF
Language
- English
- eng
Is part of
- Share3D
- United Kingdom
Relations
- https://zenodo.org/record/4557481
Year
- 2019
Providing country
- United Kingdom
Collection name
First time published on Europeana
- 2023-02-03T10:13:06.494Z
Last time updated from providing institution
- 2024-09-09T13:14:36.050Z