{"id":2301,"date":"2025-07-05T22:58:12","date_gmt":"2025-07-05T22:58:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wirralarchaeology.org\/pages\/?p=2301"},"modified":"2025-07-05T22:58:12","modified_gmt":"2025-07-05T22:58:12","slug":"ceramic-toy-marbles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wirralarchaeology.org\/pages\/ceramic-toy-marbles\/","title":{"rendered":"Ceramic Toy Marbles"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Finds From Wirral &#8211; Ceramic Toy Marbles<\/h3>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" data-attachment-id=\"2131\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/wirralarchaeology.org\/pages\/ceramic-toy-marbles\/shot_1149510\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/wirralarchaeology.org\/pages\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Shot_1149510.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"1200,800\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Ceramic Toy Marbles_1149510\" data-image-description=\"&lt;p&gt;Ceramic Toy Marbles&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Ceramic Toy Marbles&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/wirralarchaeology.org\/pages\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Shot_1149510-1024x683.jpg\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-2131\" src=\"https:\/\/wirralarchaeology.org\/pages\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Shot_1149510-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"Ceramic Toy Marbles\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wirralarchaeology.org\/pages\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Shot_1149510-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/wirralarchaeology.org\/pages\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Shot_1149510-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/wirralarchaeology.org\/pages\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Shot_1149510-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/wirralarchaeology.org\/pages\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Shot_1149510.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: HelveticaNeue;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">Three (well actually two and a half) ceramic toy marbles <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: HelveticaNeue;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">Dating from AD 1750-1900 these are spotted while field walking. Initially they look like lead shot but are far too light and obviously don\u2019t register on a metal detector as they are fired clay pipe material. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><a href=\"https:\/\/finds.org.uk\/database\/artefacts\/record\/id\/1149510\">https:\/\/finds.org.uk\/database\/artefacts\/record\/id\/1149510<\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><a href=\"https:\/\/finds.org.uk\/database\/artefacts\/record\/id\/1149512\">https:\/\/finds.org.uk\/database\/artefacts\/record\/id\/1149512<\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><a href=\"https:\/\/finds.org.uk\/database\/artefacts\/record\/id\/1158435\">https:\/\/finds.org.uk\/database\/artefacts\/record\/id\/1158435<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Finds From Wirral &#8211; Ceramic Toy Marbles Three (well actually two and a half) ceramic toy marbles Dating from AD 1750-1900 these are spotted while field walking. Initially they look like lead shot but are far too light and obviously don\u2019t register on a metal detector as they are fired clay pipe material. https:\/\/finds.org.uk\/database\/artefacts\/record\/id\/1149510 https:\/\/finds.org.uk\/database\/artefacts\/record\/id\/1149512 https:\/\/finds.org.uk\/database\/artefacts\/record\/id\/1158435<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":2131,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[117],"tags":[100],"class_list":["post-2301","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-finds","tag-finds"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Ceramic Toy Marbles - Wirral Archaeology<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/wirralarchaeology.org\/pages\/ceramic-toy-marbles\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Ceramic Toy Marbles - Wirral Archaeology\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Finds From Wirral &#8211; Ceramic Toy Marbles Three (well actually two and a half) ceramic toy marbles Dating from AD 1750-1900 these are spotted while field walking. 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Whorls are common finds but the decorated ones less so. All are dated to AD 1200-1500. Whorls were used as weights on the end of a stick which was spun and used to twist thread. 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