subcircular whorl/weight – huso o peso subcircular

1. top profile - perfil de arriba

2. detail - detalle

3. rotation

4. rear - atras

5. rotation

6. profile - perfil

7. angle - angulo

8. angle - angulo

Find coordinates (within a 5-meter radius): 38.415203, -6.445040

Description: This is a sub-circular granite stone featuring a 1.1cm hole bored through its center. On what I’m calling its “top” there is a 1.7cm (in diameter) depression supported by a bulb visible in the first photo. On the same surface narrow and shallow indentations run from the stone’s edge to the hole in its center; these indentations appear to have been worn into the stone by a cord or string. One trough runs toward the 1.7cm depression and the other runs the opposite direction.

The opposite surface is plain save for a companion wear-mark to the trough which runs away from the 1.7cm depression (image 8). In total there are three of these so-called troughs. Image 6 tries to show how these troughs meet (beneath the lichen) and how over its use-life the stone had become distorted.

Speculation:I’ve come to support three possibilities in respect to this object’s use-life utility. They are:

Net Weight: Support Images: one two three four

Loom Whorl/Weight: Support Images: one  two

Pump drills also sport stones of this shape. None of the examples I’ve seen explain the extra off-center hole/depression on this piece.

ruined moorish structure – estructura morisca en ruinas

moorish house ruin (materials) - materiales de las ruinas del pilar de moro

pilar de moro - moorish fountain basin

terrace corner - esquina de la terraza (del colina)

southwest foundation line - linea del cimiento (suroueste)

southwest inside corner - rincón suroueste

lower level southeast corner - rincón suroeste primera planta

terrace retaining wall - muro de contención del terraza (de colina)

Site coordinates:38.418305, -6.441641

Description: According to local writer Jose Antonio Amador Redondo, this is an old Moorish fountain basin. The bi-level house is ruined to its foundations. The basin is now a place where farm animals drink. It’s roughly 24 meters along its long side by 10 meters wide.

mapa - map

end scraper – rasqueta III

perfil arriba - profile (top)

perfil debajo - underside profile

punto - point

proximal end - terminacion proximal

Find coordinates (within a 5-meter radius): 38.414913, -6.441550

Form correlation: finds.org.uk end scraper (flint)

Description: This is a flaked piece of quartz/granite. The dorsal-ridge side appears to have four surfaces while the ventral (underside) has clearly been flaked to form three surfaces. Its proximal end is sub-diamond in shape.

Speculation: Judging from the image at the above link address and others I’ve seen, my guess is that this was either hafted vertically to form an end-scraper (for hides) or perpendicularly to form an axe or hatchet. As it’s flaked and ground but not polished, I’d suppose it’s not any more recent than the upper Mesolithic.