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Description: | A cast copper-alloy open-topped thimble or sewing ring of probable Medieval date. It is missing part of the rim due to old breaks but is otherwise complete. The rim is unthickened and has two crudely incised circumferential grooves. Above the rim the walls of the thimble have been heavily worked and extensive toolmarks are visible. This has produced numerous thin, vertical rectangular facets, each facet containing a vertical row of unevenly spaced punched circular indentations. The indentations run up to a crudely incised circumferential groove at the top of the thimble. The thimble measures 13.28mm in height, 14.54mm in external diameter at base, 12.89mm in external diameter at top, 1.12mm in thickness, and weighs 4.34g. The use of a thimble with an open top suggests a late Medieval to early Post-Medieval date for the current object, its relatively crude appearance and the extensive toolmarks on the exterior faces perhaps indicating a date earlier in the range, possibly in the 15th century AD.
Original Image | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/r... | Go to resource |
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