Recent analysis revealed that the spindle whorl was etched with a symbol from the Celtiberian alphabet, making it one of the earliest examples of alphabetic writing found in the province of León.

After the Romans left Britain in the 5th century AD, marauding Germanic tribes further isolated the Celts in the north and west of Britain, in the Breton areas of France, and in Celtiberian Spain.

The inscribed spindle whorl, dating to the 1st century BC, features one of the oldest examples of writing in northern Iberia, using the Celtiberian alphabet. The Bulls of Guisando are a set of ...