You don't think that's a loom or net weight? It looks a bit irregular for a spindle whorl.
(Usual disclaimer: I'm an Americanist! Anglo-Saxons are so not my area of expertise! But if someone passed me that in the lab and said, "What is it?" I would say, "I'll bet a lot of people would think this is a spindle whorl, but I bet Elizabeth Barber would call it a loom weight, and if I found it somewhere locally I would be sure it was a net weight.")
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Date: 2010-09-30 08:47 pm (UTC)(Usual disclaimer: I'm an Americanist! Anglo-Saxons are so not my area of expertise! But if someone passed me that in the lab and said, "What is it?" I would say, "I'll bet a lot of people would think this is a spindle whorl, but I bet Elizabeth Barber would call it a loom weight, and if I found it somewhere locally I would be sure it was a net weight.")