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Description: | Incomplete hammered sheet copper alloy 'skep' (like a straw beehive) thimble, circular in plan and conical in profile. The thimble is punched with vertical, concentric and random small circular indentations above two incised lines around the base, as a border. The thimble has been damaged at its most weak spot, the plain, 'tonsure' (bald spot!) crown, where there is now a hole. The size of this example suggests that it might have been used by a child.Read (1988) illustrates two similar examples on page 76, Nos.429-430, which are dated to the 14th century.
Original Image | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/r... | Go to resource |
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