Site: Skipwith Common
County: North Yorkshire
Present location: Yorkshire Museum (YORYM : 2007.6137)

Preservation type: Organic
Material: Wool
Technique: Woven
Structure: 2/2 broken diamond twill with reverses after 14+, 10, 18, 6+ warps and 7+, 7, 7, 23, 27, 11, 13 wefts

Warp/weft can be identified: Yes

	Warp/System A	Weft/System B
Spin direction	Z-spun singles	Z-spun singles
Twist angle (degrees)	50	50
Diameter	0.8mm	1.0–1.3mm
Ends/cm	5	5

Textile finish: matted, possibly from deliberate fulling

Selvedge: not present

Starting border: not present

Ending border: fringe (3.5cm long). Groups of 5 or 6 warp threads are bound with a Z-spun thread in a crochet stitch (chain stitch?)

Damage/Wear: none

Additions/Alterations: cut along two edge, this may have occurred after excavation.

Context: Discovered in 1817 by Mr Stillingfleet and thought to have come from a square barrow. No other details known.

Dating: Presumably Iron Age.

Reference:
Stead, I.M., 1965, The La Tene Cultures of East Yorkshire, The Yorkshire Philosophical Society, York.

Walton, P. 1983. Cloth from a British barrow on Skipwith Common 1817. Unpublished report held in Yorkshire Museum archive.