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Description: | A complete but slightly bent copper-alloy domed sewing-thimble. The thimble weighs 4.8g, has a height of 18.5mm and basal diameter of 18.8mm. The thimble tapers upwards to a diameter at the crown of 13.8mm and a thickness at the rim of 0.7mm. The rim is not defined or decorated in any way but the lower 2.0mm of the outer thimble wall is plain being free from and indentations. The rest of the wall surface is covered in concentrically arranged lines of indentations rather than these holes being placed on the surface as a spiral. Each indentation on the wall has a width of approximately 0.9mm and height of approximately 1.0mm and are a sort of sub-oval or sub-rectangular to sub-hexagonal shape. Each concentric line of these indentations is placed slightly to the side of the indentations below rather than directly above which has the effect of creating the appearance of diagonal lines, top left to bottom right, around the thimble. Some areas of the external wall is unclear although it is not certain whether this is due to wear, poor casting or the indentations having been filled with corrosion product. The domed top, or crown, of the thimble is covered with indentations of a different style. These indentations are arranged in straight lines of square waffle shape. Each square measures approximately 1.3mm x 1.3mm.This thimble is of a relatively recent date, either later 18th Century AD to the modern period.See Holmes, E.F. Sewing Thimbles Finds Research Group 700-1700, Datasheet 9.
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