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Description: | Silver thimble, now squashed flat and with its top missing. The rim is unthickened, and is decorated with two rows of beading (now very worn and almost flat) each between a pair of grooves; these two rows are separated by an undecorated zone of the kind that often has a personalised inscription. Above, the sides are covered with rows of raised annulets on a sunken ground - an indentation type characteristic of late 17th-century or early 18th-century thimbles. These are interrupted by two ovals, one engraved with a crowned profile bust with the initial R behind it, and one engraved with a facing bust. The thimble has a very straight edge where the top is missing, and has also burst down a very straight line, suggesting that it was made in two parts, with vertical and horizontal seams. There is no good reason to assume that this thimble must date before 1701, so in my opinion it is not Treasure under the 1996 Act. | Format: | text/html | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ | Publisher: | The Portable Antiquities Scheme | Rights holder: | The Portable Antiquities Scheme | Subjects: | archaeology | Temporal: | 1650
1750 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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