Box containing scraps of cloth and thread
A box containingf scraps of cloth and thread found in a shaft-tomb on hill top behind the tomb- chapel 525.consisting of :- Six small crumpled pieces of tabby- weave linen cloth, one folded into a narrow strip. Two similar pieces of unevenly woven woolen textile. One piece of more finely woven but now more brittle woolen textile. A skein of finely spun linen thread, neatly cut at both ends (probably in modern times). Neatly twisted skein of unspun flax fibre, 23.5cm long. Skein of unspun flax fibre, c11 cm long, largely untwisted but knotted in the middle.
- Object Number:
- 1921-425/3
- type:
- ancient cloth and thread