English: This discoidal stone spindle whorl probably dates from the Iron Age and is typical of examples found at the Llangynog defended enclosure in Carmarthenshire, Wales. The disc is well formed and smoothed; it has two pairs of incised parallel lines forming a cross on one face. In each case, the lines tend to converge. One quadrant has an additional radial line. The lines seem to be too coincident to have been accidental and similarly marked stone whorls have been found in context at Meare Lake Village (Somerset). In one case, the resemblance is remarkably similar - see <a href="http://www.gallica.co.uk/meare/platexxiii.gif.">http://www.gallica.co.uk/meare/platexxiii.gif.</a> W175 (the reverse face of this whorl does not have the concentric markings of W175). The other/reverse face has two radial lines that may have been accidental. Overall, the whorl is a pale grey/brown and appears to be made of sandstone. Whilst stone whorls are not uncommon in later times, the similarity of this stone to those described and illustrated by H. St. George Gray in chapter IV - V (p36) in The Glastonbury Lake Village, vols. i (1911) and ii (1917). A. Bulleid and H. St. G. Gray, leads me to conclude that this whorl is indeed from an earlier date. The central hole is 6mm in diameter.