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Description: | An incomplete cast thimble of late 17th or 18th century date made from a tin alloy.The thimble has been flattened and is somewhat mishapen. The top is also missing. Before it was somewhat flattend, the thimble would have been cylindrical in shape, with perhaps a minor tapering from the rim to the top. The rim is unthickened. The decoration of the thimble can be separated into a lower half and upper half. The lower half consists of three inscribed lines above the rim. Above the lines is a broad band decorated by angled inscribed lines that suggest the appearance of draped cloth. Approximately one fifth of the band is left for the inscribed initials S H centred between two arcs composed of two inscribed lines of small dots. Above the deocrated band are four more inscribed lines. The upper half of the thimble consists of small circular or hexagonal indentations arranged in a regular pattern. There is a suggestion that the top of the thimble was undecorated, based on an undecorated band near the breakage.Though the thimble is light and clearly composed mostly of tin, the indentations on the upper half bear evidence of iron corrosion.The style of lettering seen from the initials suggests a late 17th or 18th century date. | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/r... | Go to resource |
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