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Description: | A complete, Post Medieval, cast, copper alloy large size thimble. This is a closed thimble with tapering sides and flat domed top. There are irregular relatively large and spaced out hand-punched indentations all the way down to a narrow plain band around the base. The thimble is rather corroded on a green/brown coloured matt surface. This thimble is likely to date to 1500-1599. Ref. Detector Finds 2, Gordon Bailey, Greenlight Publishing 1993, page 12-14 no. 12-15, History Beneath Our Feet, Brian Read, Anglia Publishing, Ipswich 1995, page 123 no. 784, Norwich Households, Medieval-Post Medieval Finds from Norwich Survey Excavations 1971-1978, Sue Margeson, East Anglian Archaeology 1993, page 188 no. 1458 and Collectors Guide to Thimbles, Bridget McConnel, Bracken Books 1996, page 19-20. The thimble measures 19.19mm long, 19.51mm wide, 1.48mm thick, diameter 19.51mm and weighs 5.9g.
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