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Description: | An early postmedieval copper-alloy thimble, weighing 2.4g, 17.7mm tall, with a basal diameter of 15.6mm, and walls 1.0mm thick. It has sloping sides and a convex top, and the fine, hand-drilled pits are arranged in horizontal (circuferential) lines, so as to cover the thimble between the rim and the apex, but there is no other ornament. This is a late fifteenth or sixteenth century thimble. Similar examples were imported from Nuremberg, but this find does not bear the makers' mark that would distinguish it as an example of the Nuremberg type.
The thimble has been damaged following deposition, so that it now lacks a section of its wall. It has an uneven pale green patina. | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Ashby, Steven - Portable Antiquities Scheme | Identifier: | http://www.findsdatabase.org.uk/hms/pas_... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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