Context (Field collection)
Deposit: Part of a number of small objects picked up on the surface, which had been ploughed out when the urns were broken.
Event Date
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)

Context (References)
Lethbridge, Thomas C. (1951). ‘A Cemetery at Lackford, Suffolk: Report of the Excavation of a Cemetery of the Pagan Anglo-Saxon Period in 1947.' Cambridge Antiquarian Society Quarto Publications, 6.
Event Date 1951
Author: Jazmin Hundal

Context (CMS Context)
Found: Pagan Saxon Cemetery; Collected by: Lethbridge.T.C; Deposit: Part of a number of small objects picked up on the surface, which had been ploughed out when the urns were broken -
Event Date 8/9/1987
Author: maa

Description (CMS Description)
Part of an ivory or bone spindlewhorl.
'About a third of a spindlewhorl, decorated with incised lines. J. Somerville 30/5/2001.'
Event Date 8/9/1987
Author: maa

Description (Physical description)
A bone spindle whorl, decorated with incised lines around the side edge, on the top edge and around the central hole. Approximately one third remains.
Event Date 2/10/2020
Author: Sam Daisley

Context (Amendments / updates)
The record originally gave the material as either bone or ivory, but upon examination it is clear that it is made of bone. The Materials field has been updated accordingly.
Event Date 6/10/2020
Author: Sam Daisley