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Description: | Copper alloy, Late Medieval - Post Medieval, 15th-16th century, cast thimble, AD.1400-1550. This is a cast thimble with deep recesses that are hand punched in a spiral running left around the thimble. Holmes 1988, dates this type of heavy duty copper alloy thimble to AD.1400-1550. There is a broad band around the apeture that has no recesses and is undecorated.Height: 20.41mmThickness: 1.37mmWeight: 8.68gDiameter: 18.88mmHolmes, E. 1988. Sewing Thimbles. Datasheet 9. Finds Research Group 700-1700 Datasbeets 1-24. 1985-1998. Reprographic Unit, University of Oxford.
Original Image | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/ | Go to resource |
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