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Description: | The thimbles below are all most likely to be medieval and c14th century in date.
1: A worn copper-alloy thimble, most of the rim is missing due to old break. The sides are straight and the top pointed. It measures 10.7mm in height and has a rim diameter of 15.4mm, it is 1.62g in weight. The rim has a groove around it, the sides are decorated with vertical rows of small circular indentations, the top is decorated with small circular indentations arranged in horizontal rows. There is a circular hole through the centre of the top, where it is bare of decorative indentations.
2: A short complete copper-alloy thimble. Measuring 13.7mm in heightand with a rim diameter of 16.8mm, it weighs 2.71g. The rim has a groove around it and the straight sides are decorated with vertical rows of circular indentations. The top is pointed and decorated with horizontal rows of circular indentations of varying sizes.
3: An incomplete and worn copper-alloy thimble, roughly half of this thimble is now missing due to old breaks. It measures 16mm in height and has a rim diameter of c17mm, it weighs 1.90g. The rim is decorated by a groove and the straight sides have small circular indentations arrnaged in vertical rows. The top is slightly pointed and has horizontal rows of small circular indentaions and bare centre. | 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: | 1300
1450 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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