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Description: | The thimble is made from copper alloy. The rim reveals the thimble has two shells, the exterior shell having the indentations and the interior shell is undecorated. The interior shell is very thin compared to the exterior. In plan the rim is circular, but has a vertical split which is only 5.36mm long. In profile the sides of the thimble are slightly bulbous and the top is missing leaving a ragged broken edge. This damage may be recent. The exterior shell has shallow conical cells which are positioned in rows. The surface has one patch of mid green patina, but is otherwise the surface is corroded with patches of red copper corrosion. The thimble measures 16.21mm tall, 18.19mm diater at the base and weighs 3.36g.
The thimble is date to the Medieval period. Holmes (Holmes, E.F. ?Sewing Thimbles? Datasheet 9 finds Research Group) in figure 2b illustrates a similar shaped and decorated thimble which he dates to the 15th to mid 16th century. | 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: | 1400
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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