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Description: | A complete sheet copper alloy 'ring' thimble, dating to the 15th/ 16th century AD between c. 1400 - 1600 (length: 11mm; diameter at base: 20.5mm; thickness of metal: 1mm; weight: 3.9g).
There is an undecorated border running around the circumference of the base of the thimble, which is separated from the remainder of the thimble by a single incised line running around the artefact. There are four slightly slanted rows of regularly and evenly punched triangular indentations running around the circumference towards the open top of the artefact (diameter at top of the artefact: 18.5mm). There is no decoration on the inside of the thimble and, overall, the thimble is in a worn but fair condition with a dark green/ brown patina.
A similar example is illustrated in Holmes, E, F, 1991, 'Sewing Thimbles' Datasheet 9 Finds Research Group, page 2, fig 4, which is dated to c. AD 1500. Another example is also illustrated in Ottaway, P and Rogers, N, 2002, 'Craft, Industry and Everyday Life: Finds from Medieval York' The Archaeology of York, The Small Finds Volume 17, page 2740 , ref nos 13302-3, which was discovered in deposits dated to the mid 16th to 17th 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
1600 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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