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Description: | The thimble, in profile, has straight sides which taper slightly towards the top which is slightly convex. The rim is sub oval in plan due to the thimble being slightly squashed. The exterior of the rim is undecorated except for a fine horizontal groove. From the rim you can see the thimble is made from one shell. The indentations are positioned in rows, close together. The indentations are conical shaped cells. The surface of the thimble has a mid brown/green coloured patina. The thimble measures 18.34mm tall and 20.06mm wide at the base.
The object is a late Medieval (1450-1550) thimble made from copper alloy. Holmes (1988 ?Sewing Thimbles? Finds Research Group 700-1700) illustrates similar examples in figure 2b. | 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: | 1450
1550 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Angie Bolton | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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