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« on: June 23, 2009, 08:59:15 PM »
Any ideas on this anyone , found a while ago , never paid it much attention. Curious now

Its lead
Size of a Sixpence
Hole in centre
a few mm thick
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« Reply #1 on: June 23, 2009, 09:59:08 PM »
Weight of some sort maybe?
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« Reply #2 on: June 23, 2009, 10:52:35 PM »
Hello Rob!!  Smiley I must have the big brother to your weight I found it sunday on the R.A.R.E rally my first find of the day in the middle of the first field searched it was down at least a foot it measures about 3 inches in diameter and twice the thickness of a cartwheel penny and as a hole in the middle also  ;)mole
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« Reply #3 on: June 24, 2009, 09:49:15 AM »
Always finding lead with holes in Rob and the type you are showing has been made either in situ or locally , there really isn't any way of identifying what they were for, but would guess they were for the wool industry (some of them anyway)!

Have a look at the link , it is quite interesting

http://www.geocities.com/garys_hoard/lead/spin.html
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« Reply #4 on: June 24, 2009, 10:04:59 AM »
Good link.  i got a few spindle worls    i also got the big cone shaped one .didn't know what it was until now .
mystery solved Wink
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« Reply #5 on: June 24, 2009, 10:08:20 AM »
more lead,found this a few weeks ago ,its 36mm made of lead .same on the other side.its s shaped !!!!! Huh
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« Reply #6 on: June 24, 2009, 10:15:23 AM »
Thanks guys , good link Steve , I love my spindle Whorls.
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« Reply #7 on: June 24, 2009, 10:28:03 AM »
by the way nice find TAFF,as you said i like my spindle whorls to . Wink
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« Reply #8 on: June 24, 2009, 11:37:09 AM »
Is there what looks like a point on the hidden end of the "s" kev ? Does look like it may have been a lead stylus at one point!
Looks like it has been bent and thrown by the damage on it , think sometimes this was done by kids to lose their pencil on the way to school  Grin
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« Reply #9 on: June 24, 2009, 11:46:04 AM »
thanks for that Hedgehog, yes a bit of a point on it,whats a lead stylus !! Wink
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« Reply #10 on: June 24, 2009, 11:58:17 AM »
They were used on slate (they leave a visible mark on welsh slate!) for writing in school or tallying on the farms and fields. Akin to pencil and paper really!
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« Reply #11 on: June 24, 2009, 12:20:32 PM »
Not the sort of pencil you'd want to suck the end of though....lol
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