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Description: | A complete and misshapen Medieval to post-Medieval sheet copper-alloy open thimble or 'sewing ring' (c. 1450-c. 1550). Holmes 1988: 2, fig. 4.This thimble is circular in cross-section and the side tapers inwards from the base towards the top. The outer face has a spiralling line of four revolutions of drilled sub-triangular pits. It spirals in an anti-clockwise direction from the bottom towards the top. There are no manufacturing marks.This thimble is drab reddish brown with patches of bright green corrosion products.Height: 8.36mm; width: 20.50mm; thickness: 18.77mm; thickness of walls: 0.61mm. Weight: 1.83g.Holmes 1988. Sewing Thimbles. Finds Research Group Datasheet 9. Finds Research Group 700-1700. Norwich.
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