Vindolanda VIN TT/85/055/003 Animal hair cord

Catalogue number VIN TT/85/055/003 [TT/85/55C] Description Cord in ?goat hair. Cord (2-3mm thick, max.l. 1.05m) weak S-plied from 6 glossy black weak Z-spun yarns; yarns contain many thick stiff fibres and finer fibres (sampled JPW)

Context

Site Vindolanda Context Vindolanda via principalis to W of VIA Excavation year 1985 Site phase

Basic information

Preservation state organic Object class cord


Material	animal hair
Fibre identification method	naked eye
Yarn structure
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Data recorded by Felicity Wild and John Peter Wild Data entered by Bela Dimova Date of study 1973-2020