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Description: | A thimble made from cast copper alloy. The rim reveals the thimble is made with a single shell. The rim is slightly thickened and is decorated on the exterior with double stranded horizontal linear grooves. There are no notches or folds in the rim. The sides of the thimble are straight and tapers slightly towards the domed top. The indentations are small low-relief conicals, set out in irregular columns. The indentations do not cover the domed head. The exterior surface of the thimble as a well developed mid green patina. It is 13.37mm long and 16.7mm diameter at the base. It weighs 2.3g.
The thimble is dated to the Medieval period. Holmes (Holmes, E.F. ??Sewing Thimbles?? Datasheet 9 finds Research Group) in figure 1c illustrates a similar shaped and decorated thimble which he dates to the mid 14th to mid 15th century and calls it a light duty thimble. | Subjects: | Light-Duty | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Bolton, Angie - Portable Antiquities Scheme | Identifier: | http://www.findsdatabase.org.uk/hms/pas_... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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