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Description: | A copper-alloy thimble of probable cast construction. Of the domed type with superficial, regularly punched indentations. There are deeper holes on an extant fragment of outer skin. On the top of the thimble there is a bare circular patch, sometimes called a 'tonsure', an area characterised by an absence of indentations. Such tonsures are indicative of a relatively early date. Overall, the thimble is medieval in date; similar early thimbles are often dated to the period 1350 to 1450 (Holmes 1991; Bailey 1995, 12-13). | 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: | 1350
1450 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Robert Webley | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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