A classic example of what I mean is lead 'spindle whorls'. These turn up all the time around here. They were attached to the end of stick and used by young women 'spinsters' to make woolen yarn medieval times before the invention of the spinning wheel.
Spinsters! Of course, it seems so obvious now. I didn't know this, thanks cofty.
I live in Ashby de la Zouch where the castle was briefly the prison of Mary Queen Of Scots and later held out under siege during the Civil War until it was eventually destroyed by the parliamentarians.
The settlement by the ash trees, Ashby, has been here since the eleventh century, the Norman name was added later. An ash tree seeded itself in my garden about twenty years ago and I had to have it pollarded two years ago because they grow very fast and it was huge. They don't come into leaf until nearly June so I was terrified I had killed it but my beautiful ash tree has survived.