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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 undecorated on the exterior. Instead the conical indentions start, in rows along the edge of the rim. There are no notches or folds in the rim. The sides of the thimble are straight and tapers slightly towards the domed top. The thimble is squat in profile. The indentations are low-relief conicals, set out in tight rows, leaving a small area clear at the apex of the thimble. The exterior surface of the thimble as a matte mottled dark green and grey exterior surface. The thimble is 18.3mm long and 21.13mm diameter at the base. It weighs 5.9g.
The thimble is dated to the Medieval period. Geake (Geake 2001 Finds Recording Guide 1.1 unpublished) comments that short thimbles, whether straight-sided with pointed tops, or almost hemispherical can be dated to the 14th century. Holmes (Holmes, E.F. ??Sewing Thimbles?? Datasheet 9 finds Research Group) in Figure 2a illustrates a similar shaped and decorated thimble which he dates to the 15th to mid 16th century and calls it a heavy duty thimble. | 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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THIMBLE
A cast copper alloy thimble.…
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