Other finds from the room included a spindle whorl, an iron strip, and a handstone.
We watched the rhythmic spinning of the spindle whorl as it dropped slowly towards the floor.
A Viking Age spindle whorl from L' Anse aux Meadows (in Newfoundland) is evidence that women also reached the New World.
Other finds included a spindle whorl, two querns, and a bronze rivet.
Other finds, such as large storage vessels, unpainted and coarse pottery, weights, and spindle whorls, seem to point not so much to a ritual site as to a domestic structure.