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An excellent Celtic "La Tene" pottery spindle whorl from Southern Germany. SOLD
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Celtic "La Tene" period c.300 B.C. An excellent Celtic "La Tene" pottery spindle whorl found many years back on Mount Ipf,  a Celtic Hill Fort, near Bopfingen, Southern Germany. A robust example fashioned from a hard dark clay with a incised border around edge of main face. Hole in the center for a wooden spindle to the end of which raw sheep's wool would be attached and the entire spindle then spun to form yarn for making clothes. [ Mount Ipf is a mostly treeless mountain, near Bopfingen, Southern Germany with a Celtic Hill fort on its top. The fort is situated on an isolated hill, with a flattened summit surrounded by a stone wall, ditch an large counterscarp ( outer bank ).  The Ipf is located in the near of the Swabian Alb and near the river Danube. See web link for more info -  http://home.bawue.de/~wmwerner/english/ipf.html ] , from a German collection, A couple of tiny old knocks otherwise intact and in very good condition, an interesting Celtic artefact from a very interesting and famous European site, 78mm long x 64mm wide x 35mm thick, details and photos of Mount Ipf hill fort included.