This article investigates tinned bronze ornaments found in two graves of the Lazdininkai-Kalnalaukis

cemetery dated to the end of the 2nd century to the first quarter of the 3rd century AD

from the perspective of archaeological materials, intercultural contacts, 14C AMS dating, and

chemical-physical and biological research. These ornaments — a wheel-shaped pendant and a

bead — were originally parts of fashionable necklaces. However, these ornaments went into the

graves as spinning tools. The wheel-shaped pendant from grave 8(1992) contains the first ever

found, or at least officially recorded, use in Lithuania of an aquatic plant for a spinning tool bobbin.

The piece of possible linden tree wood was used to compose the spinning tool bobbin found

in grave 68(2001). These spinning tools are the first to have appeared in Lithuanian archaeological

material from as early as the end of the 2nd century to the first quarter of the 3rd century. In

addition, both spinning tools are unique in the Lithuanian archaeological record so far in that

the copper alloy spindle whorls were used to compose both working tools. The closest analogues

for the wheel-shaped pendant are known from the Wielbark culture and this example should be

considered as an import from that cultural area. Copper alloy beads and various local derivatives,

however, are numerous in the range of the Baltic cultures area. The copper alloy wheel-shaped

spindle whorls from the Migration period cemeteries are the spinning tools created for the specific

purpose of spinning which were produced locally, even possibly in the same workshops.